Why we’re all on antidepressants

Trump's chokehold on the Republican Party is over, according to many within the party. Among them: Rod Dreher, a conservative author and friend of JD Vance. This episode was produced by Danielle Hewitt and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, eng ...  Show more

The blue wave turned into a blunami. Rahm Emanuel was in Congress the last time this happened. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Kelli Wessinger with help from Ariana Aspuru, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatascio ...  Show more

Are antidepressants and mood-altering drugs like SSRIs really helping people or are they quietly destroying minds? In this powerful episode of Michael &, Michael Knowles sits down with Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring, a psychiatrist and whistleblower, to discuss the dark side of Big Phar ...  Show more

Nearly one in five US adults are diagnosed with depression at some point in their lives. As the use of antidepressants have steadily risen since their introduction in the 1980s, what have we learned about depression? Is depression truly a “chemical imbalance” of the brain? And wh ...  Show more

On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior editor Shannon Palus is joined by the managing editor of Future Tense, Mia Armstrong. This week is all about selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a class of drugs commonly used to treat depression and anxiety. Shannon ...  Show more