| In the 1960s, the Pharmaceutical
Company Sandoz marketed its tranquilizer Serentil with ads suggesting the drug
be prescribed to "the newcomer in town who can’t make friends and the woman who
can’t get along with her new daughter-in-law. The executive who can’t accept
retirement." But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stopped the ads.
Drugs are supposed to treat illnesses, the agency said, not the changes of
living. Isn’t that an unusual idea The FDA was worried back then about an overmedicated society. Today 7% of Americans are on antidepressants (many more have tried them), and ads try to persuade people to buy drugs for problems like fatigue, loneliness and sadness. Still, drug companies aren’t the (sole) villain. Horwitz, dean of social and behavioral sciences at Rutgers, and Wakefield, an expert on mental-illness diagnosis at New Yo A. ( Sadness is a normal human emotion that serves a specific purpose B. ( Sadness makes humans strive for happiness or contentment C. ( Sadness and happiness are definitely two sides of the same coin D. ( Sadness is now diagnosed as depressive disorder 更多"In the 1960s, the Pharmaceutical "的相关试题:我来回答: 提交
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