Drug Companies

“Addicted to their billion-dollar sales, the companies have been sneakily repackaging old pills for new uses, hawking their not-so-magic elixirs for everything from shyness to smoking to work stress to supermom jits to severe premenstrual blues to muscle tension to dating anxiety.

Some psychiatrists admitted in the Times article that ‘the impression often conveyed by commercials for the drugs is clear: Almost anyone could benefit from them.’
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The more anxious the companies feel about profits, the more generalized the generalized anxiety disorders get.”

—Maureen Dowd, “Aloft on Bozoloft,” July 3, 2002, The New York Times