A is for Antidepressants (and also addiction).

For drug companies, antidepressants are one of the great success stories. Starting in the early 1960s, and especially over the past 30 years, drug manufacturers have pulled in hundreds of billions of dollars (that's with a B, and also USD) from these products. Starting from a low base of 1% in about 1990, increasing numbers of adults take these drugs re…