It started as a treatment for depression and ended up a fashion
accessory for the trendy end of Generation X.
The release of the book Prozac Nation and a deluge of magazine
articles claiming Prozac was the solution to all problems led even
the sanest people to the GP's surgery in search of instant karma.
No dinner party was complete without someone popping open a blister
pack of green-and-white capsules and declaring they had seen the
light. It made Heroin Chic seem positively
healthy.