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This article appeared in the May 24, 2004 edition of The Nation.

May 6, 2004

Link to original article.

PROZAC NOTION

New York City

Your devil-beater, in his diatribe against antidepressants, is throwing out the patient with the Prozac syrup [Alexander Cockburn, "Beat the Devil," April 19]. He is right about a moribund FDA and greedy drug companies. I ended my membership in the American Psychiatric Association because of their oh-too-close love affair with the pharmaceutical industry. And I am disgusted with doctors whoring for industry and with industry treating doctors to fancy dinners and trips to lovely resorts, where they "learn" about the latest, greatest antidepressant.

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About Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn has been The Nation's "Beat the Devil" columnist since 1984. He is the author or co-author of several books, including the best-selling collection of essays Corruptions of Empire (1987), and a contributor to many publications, from The New York Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly and the Wall Street Journal to alternative publications such as In These Times and the Anderson Valley Advertiser. With Jeffrey St. Clair, he edits the newsletter and radical website CounterPunch, which have a substantial world audience. more...

About David Moberg

David Moberg, a senior editor of In These Times, writes frequently for The Nation on labor issues. more...

About Frances FitzGerald

Frances FitzGerald is the author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Back Bay) and Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (Simon & Schuster). more...

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