RxList - Top 300

The most prescribed medications in 2004. Codeine tops the list at more than 92 million scrips. Yeehaw.

Zoloft (for everything ...) comes in at 14th, with almost 30 million prescriptions. Fluoxetine HCl (generic Prozac) gets more than 21 million. Amitriptyline HCl, another mood-med, gets more than 15 million. Celexa has more than 10 million scrips per year. Paxil CR, more than 9 million scrips. Wellbutrin XL, more than 9 million. Wellbutrin SR, more than 4 million. Abilify, more than 2 million.

These are just the ones I can readily identify of the psych meds. That's at least 100 million scrips written in 2004. There were 293.5 million people living in the U.S. in 2004. You mean to tell me that at least 1/3 of the people in the U.S. are some kind of mentally ill? Why, at that point, you would almost have to redefine normal ...