Medco Health Solutions is a large by-mail prescription drug vendor. Their market is supplying Rx drugs in 90 day batches to people who take those drugs to control an on-going condition like high blood pressure, not to cure an episodic illness like strep throat.
Medco has done a massive study which finds 25% of U.S. women take one or more prescription drugs for mental health issues. On the other hand, the number of men taking such drugs is a still-high 15%.
Imagine it, one woman in four has mental health issues requiring medication. Can it be that difficult to be a woman in this country?
Frankly, even 15% sounds like over-prescribing by American doctors. You can find articles about this study
here in
Yahoo News or
here in
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required).
