Root Shock
01: Depression in Japan (Part 1) - How Big Pharma Changed Mental Health
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In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies looked to Japan with yearning dollar-bills in their eyes. They had a hot new antidepressant just off the assembly line: Paxil. But the Japanese people weren’t into Paxil like that. In fact, they thought the American idea of depression was kind of bizarre. Nobody wanted to buy the company’s drug :(
With no market, and an expensive product—what’s a…