Laura Delano
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735 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Jun
Laura Delano’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're getting worse.
Broadly speaking, around 65 million Americans are on some kind of psychiatric medication according to CDC numbers from 2022.
So I would estimate the numbers are actually higher.
That's 61 million adults and 4 million kids around there.
You know, tens of millions of people are on antidepressants alone.
And, you know, older women...
have really high rates of antidepressant prescriptions.
Obviously, foster kids have really high rates of all kinds of psychiatric prescriptions.
You know, more people are on these meds than ever before at the same time as more people than ever before are suffering and struggling and thinking about killing themselves, trying to kill themselves, actually killing themselves.
Who's writing the most scripts for these antipsychotic medications?
Broadly speaking, it's actually not psychiatrists, interestingly enough.
Most psychiatric prescriptions are written by primary care doctors.
And then a lot of APRNs are now writing prescriptions.
And so...
it isn't a problem with psychiatry itself.
It's with this kind of quick fix.
Here's a script.
You're feeling sad about your stress at work.
And we're in our annual physical.
Here's a prescription.
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