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Antidepressants are “purely therapeutic,” said Dr. Ragy Girgis, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia. “They have no real abuse potential. People wouldn’t crave them.”

Carl Erik Fisher, author of this Opinion piece, is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

“There was a lot of social isolation, a lot of loneliness," said Columbia's Dr. Mark Olfson. "And those are things that psychotherapy is designed to address, in a way that medication can't."

“If you get through the first two years of this experience and feel like you have a future and have a sense of personhood, and you can be somebody—what a difference,” said OnTrackNY's Dr. Lisa Dixon.