Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescri…

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