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Prozac Nation is a memoir by American writer Elizabeth Wurtzel published in 1994. The book describes the author's experiences with atypical depression, [1] her own character failings and how she managed to live through particularly difficult periods while completing college and working as a writer.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- 1994
Dec 29, 2017 · Prozac, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration 30 years ago today, on Dec. 29, 1987, marked the first in a wave of widely prescribed antidepressants that built on and capitalized...
- Olivia Goldhill
May 27, 2009 · In the United States of the early 1970s about 200 million prescriptions for psychotropic drugs were made each year. The most commonly prescribed types were sedatives and anxiolytics, such as meprobamate (Miltown).
- Gwen Adshead
- 2009
Sep 25, 2019 · Prozac Nation was published on September 25, 1994, three days after Friends premiered on NBC. Both are emblematic of that era: angsty Gen-X youth and the golden age of television sitcoms. Like many cultural artifacts that are very rooted in their particular time and place, neither has aged very well.
- Anne Thériault
Apr 10, 2013 · It was trendy. The drug found fame among laymen, fuelled in part by Elizabeth Wurtzel's bestselling book Prozac Nation. Now it is part of the everyday lexicon. The drug was introduced in the US...
In the 1980s, historian of pharmacology Mickey Smith wrote that new blockbuster medicines enter society by a three-step process. First, a wild popular embrace, driven by overestimation of the drug's potential, leads to overuse; next, the sudden discovery of “problems” with the drug leads to a backlash; and finally, a state of equilibrium is ...
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Mar 1, 2020 · Among these gamechangers undoubtedly lies the introduction of fluoxetine (Prozac) by Eli Lilly and Company in 1987. The search for a drug specifically targeting depression began with the work...
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