[kochevnik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')One of the public's responses to that post 9/11 environment is popping pills. Since that dreadful day, there has been a rapid and dramatic increase in sales of anti-anxiety, anti-depressant, and sleep aid drugs, according to one Atlanta-based health information service provider, NDC Health, which tracks retail pharmaceutical sales.

New prescriptions for sleep aids rose 27.5%. Anti-anxiety drug prescriptions are up 25% and anti-depressants up 17%. New prescriptions for anti-anxiety drugs and anti-depressants are up 13%, while sleep aid prescriptions are up 8%. Nationwide, anti-anxiety prescriptions are up 8.6%, anti-depressants up 2.6%, and sleep aids up 7.5%.

Therapists are reporting agitation, sleeplessness, survivor guilt and depression - and not just among those directly affected by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A New York psychiatrist says her practice increased by 25% since September 11 and that half of those patients had no direct connection to the attacks. "These people feel they have no control over their lives," she said. Another shrink reports that his practice has increased by 50% since the attacks and that he didn't expect it to fall off anytime soon.

[The_Virginian]

victory for big pharma.

[Schweinshaxe]

A bottle of vodka works better for the issues described anyway...

Why pop pills when you have King Alcohol?

[SinisterBlueCat]

yeah, but is is très chic to pop the latest designer pill. Drinking large amounts of vodka just makes you a soak. Remember, image still is everything.