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Why antidepressants are widely prescribed

Name: Why antidepressants are widely prescribed
Uploaded: 2012-02-19T11:22:42-0500
Duration: 1 min 3 s
Description: "I think the problem in psychiatry is...we don't have a lot of tools" to treat depression, says Dr. Walter Brown, and therefore antidepressants become a default treatment.

"I think the problem in psychiatry is...we don't have a lot of tools" to treat depression, says Dr. Walter Brown, and therefore antidepressants become a default treatment.