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No, Prozac) was invented by the U.S. corporation Eli Lilly.
However, the consumption of anti-depressants is pretty high in Scandinavia, but in Norway only 5.8 % are on happy pills. In Denmark the percentage is 8.5 % (and Finland is somewhere in the middle with 7 %.)
 
dann said:
No, Prozac) was invented by the U.S. corporation Eli Lilly.
However, the consumption of anti-depressants is pretty high in Scandinavia, but in Norway only 5.8 % are on happy pills. In Denmark the percentage is 8.5 % (and Finland is somewhere in the middle with 7 %.)
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Soz, looks like my source used 'prozac' as a generic word for SSRI's (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor), because everybody has heard of it. I am sure it is a reference to Citalopram.

Lundbeck was a Danish firm which launched the earliest SSRI's.

Citalopram was first synthesized in 1972 by scientists at the pharmaceutical company Lundbeck and was first marketed in 1989 in Denmark. It was first marketed in the US in 1998.[61] The patent expired in 2003, allowing other companies to legally produce generic versions. Lundbeck has released escitalopram and acquired a new patent for it. In the United States, Forest Labs manufactures and markets the drug.
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Professor Arvind Carlsson put forward the theory that serotonin was involved in mood. In August, 1972, Klaus Bogeso – a scientist for the Danish company Lundbeck Pharmaceuticals, created the compound now known as Citalopram.

Well anyway, you get the thrust of the irony of the 'world's happiest country' (for that year) being the inventors of the happy pill.
 
Statistics compiled by a sustainable growth organization. Can't imagine how that might be biased. Oh, snap!
 
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