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Originally Posted by BlackHelicopters
What estimation? Give me a %.
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This article claims as high as 25% of women:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...n_1098023.html
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One of the more startling statistics in the report, which analyzed prescription claims data from 2.5 million insured Americans from 2001 to 2010, is that one in four women is dispensed medication for a mental health condition
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Data from the CDC shows a sharp increase in antidepressant scrips over the past 15 years in both sexes but in women more so:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...sants-men.html
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Women in the United States are twice as likely to use antidepressants as men, new data show.
The data, collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show a significant increase in both genders taking the drugs over a 15-year span.
But while the percentage increase over time was similar among men and women, double the rate of females reported taking the medication at any time.
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This article claims one out of every five:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/psychia...use-women-men/
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The study also found substantial differences in the rate of psychiatric drug use among different gender and racial groups.
About 21 percent of white adults reported use of these drugs, compared with 8.7 percent of Hispanic adults, 9.7 percent of black adults and 4.8 percent of Asian adults.
Women were also much more likely than men to report taking psychiatric drugs.
“I was particularly surprised to discover that about one out of five adult women are taking a psychiatric drug and that that rate was double that of men,” Moore said. “That is a very high exposure rate.”
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