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From the headline this looked like a really great article and one I could recommend to my students studying our Sustainable Chemistry Module. I cannot recommend it however because of the first line:
"Psychiatric medicine has become a go-to remedy for broken spirits and wrecked nerves all over the world".
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. [Source: World Health Organisation, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs369/en/] and those who suffer from it face constant the constant stigma that it isn't a proper or real illness. This sentence marginalizes the experience of those who suffer from a whole range of psychiatric illnesses and writes off effective medication as a 'remedy', a phrase most commonly used to describe kitchen cupboard cures for mild colds. I can't recommend an article to my students that belittles the experience of so many. No one would ever consider writing 'chemotherapy is the go-to remedy for people with lumpy bodies', or 'painkillers are the go-to remedy for people with broken legs', and mental health should be treated with no less respect.