Prescriptions for anti-depressant drugs such as prozac rose by more than 40 % over the past four years , data obtained by the bbc shows .
从bbc获得的数据显示,在过去的4年里,像百忧解这样的抗抑郁处方药用量增长了40%多。
Not all those prescriptions are phoney , of course , but presumably america did not become a 48 % more painful place during those nine years .
当然,不能断言这些处方中都有诈,但是想必美国也不至于在这九年之间痛苦指数上升48%。
Instead , members of the pain caucus seem to be making it up as they go along , inventing ever-changing rationales for their never-changing policy prescriptions .