[Protoclown]

Drugs are almost CERTAINLY ridiculously overprescribed, regardless of your stance on the issue. They are too often doled out as a quick fix to a problem that they don't really help, but merely distract from instead. In some cases they may very well help, but in many others they are definitely inappropriate.

I've known a lot of people who have been on anti-depressant drugs (prozac, paxil, etc) and many of them have told me they'd rather be depressed than carry on as the emotional zombies they were while under the effect of the drug. Is it better to feel sad than feel nothing at all? Apparently, to these people anyway.