How a depression test devised by a Zoloft marketer became a crutch for a failing mental health system | article by Olivia Goldhill - Upcarta

How a depression test devised by a Zoloft marketer became a crutch for a failing mental health system

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Feb 21, 2023
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Olivia Goldhill

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A bedrock of the U.S. mental health system — a 9-item questionnaire used to spot depression — began not with a doctor, but with a marketer.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias · Feb 28, 2023

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Great piece here about how pharmaceutical marketing incentives, resource scarcity, and the perennial search for shortcuts can undermine sound clinical practice.