Unlike alcohol, mood altering drugs, such as tranquilizers, antidepressants and sedatives, have long been marketed as medicines. They also have been primarily aimed at and used by women.
In the nineteenth century, present, patent medicines containing dangerously large amounts of opiates were sold to women for relief of female troubles. Today, physicians prescribe two –thirds of all legal psychoactive drugs to women. More than one million women reports dependence on them.
Prescription psychoactive drugs have justifiable and effective uses in certain short term crisis situations, for truly disabling depression or anxiety and for some physical ailments. But too often, physicians prescribe these powerful, often addictive drugs to treat the ordinary stress of daily life: boredom on the job, rambunctious children, loneliness, martial difficulties.
With older women, the onset of menopause or a husband's death often becomes a reason to prescribe these drugs. Much of these "medicalization" of normal life problems is encouraged by the aggressive American drug industry. Drugs add in medical and psychiatric journals often suggest that women are particularly unable to withstand the stresses of daily life without chemical relief.
i agree that doctors have become too prone to freely prescribing drugs to people with non-acute mental afflictions. i’ve been diagnosed with GAD (generalized anxiety disorder) and have tried many drugs and have found them all to cause more harm than good. i think that people need to realize that mood altering drugs in general, both recreational and prescribed, are mostly good for short-term applications/experiences only.
mood drugs which are given by the doctors are not so much secured. people should understand the mood drugs also comes into the drugs category and can be harmful. they should avoid to take that and try to take any other alternative for this… well written post by you. good luck.
regards,
clare
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