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*
From here on, in keeping with tradition, I will use “Prozac” to refer to the whole class of SSRIs, unless it’s clear I am talking about Prozac specifically.

  
†
Currently the United States and New Zealand are the only two developed countries that allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs.

  
‡
At root, the word
stigma
means a sign or a mark; Erving Goffman, the sociologist who popularized its use, used it to mean the taking on or imposition of an identity that marks its bearer as abnormal.