As part of treatment for mental illness, drugs are a role for treatment; however there are questions raising, “Are medications for mental illness overprescribed?” hence it sparks a discussion with another side opposing, “No, medications are not overprescribed”. Nonetheless, according to a print source Mental Illness, a journalist and author Robert Whitaker, he wondered if these “wonder drugs” like Prozac and etc. really are helping people (Espejo 35). Continuing on, it goes to ask, “Why has the number of Americans on government disability due to mental illness skyrocketed from 1.2 million from 1987 to over 4 million today?” (Espejo 35). Robert Whitaker, the author of Anatomy of an Epidemic is the very first book to scrutinize long-term results
