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Are generic drugs a bad bargain?
All of us want cheaper medicine — but not if it costs us our health


SELF Magazine, May 26, 2009 -

Just when Beth Hubbard should have been feeling great, her health fell apart.

A 34-year-old housewares designer in the St. Louis area, Hubbard had recently gotten married. She liked the creativity of her career. And she'd conquered her mild depression and fatigue with a combination of exercise, rest and medicine, including the antidepressant Wellbutrin XL. But in the fall of 2006, shortly after she refilled her prescription — her pharmacy giving her this time Budeprion XL, a generic version of the drug — her good health gave way.

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