A New ‘Brave New World’

Our reliance on drugs that don’t really even work is preventing us from understanding the root causes of depression and devising new ways to address them.

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Commentary

For the past century, it’s been a mainstay of the science fiction genre: the medicated society—a society in which the majority of the population is given some form of drug to alter their behavior, ostensibly for the better.