Olivia Goldhill

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

Author: Editorial 22nd February 2023 0 Comments

This article by Olivia Goldhill has been published by Stat. It begins: “A bedrock of the U.S. mental health system — a nine-item questionnaire used to spot depression — began not with a doctor, but with a marketing man. Howard Kroplick,…
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