Confessions of an Advertising Writer: How I Helped Pharma Sell Antidepressants

Confessions of an Advertising Writer: How I Helped Pharma Sell Antidepressants

If you have doubts that Americans have lost faith in a Higher Power, take a look at how we worship the biomedical model of depression. The biomedical model is so entrenched in our culture that it has become gospel—preached in doctor’s offices, reinforced by advertising, and accepted as unquestioned truth, even though it’s been debunked. Depression was sold to us as a simple problem of serotonin insufficiency, a convenient narrative that made dru…

The sertraline, an antidepressant treatment also prescribed for other psychiatric disorders, is affected by supply difficulties. A finding prompting the drug agency to ask doctors to restrict prescriptions. - Medication: this antidepressant treatment encounters supply difficulties (Health and well-being). TF1 INFO