http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N03411375.htm
Why the significant difference? Could it be the possibility that the reality of everyday life has always been known by the black populous, and not necessarily understood as such by their caucasian counterparts and the rude awakening has made them turn to prescription medications to quell the anxiety of the realities of what's real?
Use of antidepressant drugs in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2005, probably because of a mix of factors, researchers reported on Monday.
About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 -- 13 million people. This rose to more than 10 percent or 27 million people by 2005, the researchers found.
"Significant increases in antidepressant use were evident across all sociodemographic groups examined, except African Americans," Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University in New York and Steven Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia wrote in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
"Not only are more U.S. residents being treated with antidepressants, but also those who are being treated are receiving more antidepressant prescriptions
