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FarCenter

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19. They have to have something to talk about with their friends

Reply to Sunlei (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2016, 09:35 AM

Dec 2016

Also, use of these drugs increased with age, with one-quarter of those 60 to 85 reportedly taking them compared to 9 percent of 18- to 39-year-olds. Women also were more likely to report using psychiatric drugs than men.

Just like they talk about their surgeries, they compare notes about the drugs they are taking.

Older white women have better access to health insurance, doctors are willing to see them and write prescriptions, the drug companies are making bank, and all their friends are taking pills of various kinds.

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One in six U.S. adults takes a psychiatric drug, study says [View all] Sunlei Dec 2016 OP

Two possibilities: One, that these drugs are being overprescribed. raccoon Dec 2016 #1

A third possibility is that fewer people are drinking alcohol all day long. pnwmom Dec 2016 #2

I don't see the connection canetoad Dec 2016 #3

I think in earlier generations more people self-medicated with alcohol. pnwmom Dec 2016 #4

I hadn't thought of that! get the red out Dec 2016 #5

Many people still do and yet this article pnwmom Dec 2016 #7

Well, evangelicals get the red out Dec 2016 #8

In any case pnwmom Dec 2016 #9

people are over medicated & many are addicted to medicine by their own Doctors. Sunlei Dec 2016 #14

Fine. Just as long as they don't smoke any weed. Warren DeMontague Dec 2016 #6

I may need to be put on one now that Donny Tiny Hands sposedly won the election... InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2016 #10

I hear you. Delphinus Dec 2016 #11

I have never taken a illegal drug in my life, but... Javaman Dec 2016 #12

you'll love it, just make sure you're home relaxed with music & fun, and turn off phones. Sunlei Dec 2016 #16

They get an early start. CanSocDem Dec 2016 #13

Doped, Duped, and Donalded America. These are the worst of times... Bucky Dec 2016 #15

Running is my drug. cwydro Dec 2016 #17

As some of you have said, in the past, and present, many people raccoon Dec 2016 #18

They have to have something to talk about with their friends FarCenter Dec 2016 #19