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Katherine Sharpe
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Katherine Sharpe is a writer based in Brooklyn. Her book Coming of Age on Zoloft, about the first generation to grow up on antidepressants, is published by HarperCollins. She blogs at Psychology Today.

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Bad Mothers and Single Women: A Look Back at Antidepressant Advertisements (PHOTOS)

(35) Comments | Posted June 11, 2012 | 10:54 AM

It has been 15 years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed drug companies to advertise prescription-only medications directly to consumers. Its decision made the United States the only developed country besides New Zealand that permits such advertising.

Many Americans who are thirtyish and older can remember when...

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