Thursday, February 14, 2013

Very Religious and Anti-Depressants

So alternet has put out an article correlating the "very religious" states and the use of antidepressants.

Using a gallup poll here that says the "most religious states" are Mississippi, Utah, Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas, all of which exceed the 52% mark, and a report from 'express scripts' documenting prescription use from 2002-2006, which states the following with regard to antidepressant use:

"Three of the five states with the highest
rate of use in 2000 — Utah, Maine and
Kentucky — remained in the top five in
2006. Although Utah continued to be the
state with the highest prevalence of
antidepressant use, it had one of the lowest
rate increases of any state (2.4%) between
2000 and 2006. States with the greatest
increases in overall prevalence included the
Southeastern states of Alabama and Louisiana,
in addition to states located in the Northern
(Wisconsin) and Northeastern (New
Hampshire and Connecticut) regions of
the country."

Although I haven't looked at their methods or thought much about the problems of putting together two correlative pieces of research together to suggest something ("when God is not enough"), I find it interesting to say the least...

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