There was a lot of coverage of this in the papers over the weekend.
See here
Basically arguing that as a society we have come to expect to reach for the medicine cabinet to cure all our woes...
This struck a chord we me, 'cos actually I do believe there's an element of truth in it?
And in fact, I've been quite surprised since joining Mumsnet to see how many health/ depressed threads quickly attract posts which basiaclly say, "Go and see your Dr and make sure you 'get something for it.." where the 'something' is likely to be some tablets or medicine.
I was interested to note the last bit too, which says "Britain's GPs have largely ignored the advice of the Chief Medical Office that many depressed patients should be prescribed exercise programmes rather than pills"
I'm not saying people shouldn't have medicines if they REALLY need them, just that perhaps we've come to rely too much on them??