Problem Solution

Drugs To Go To Work:

http://www.counterpunch.org/rosenberg05102010.html

Do you work in customer service? Health care? The restaurant industry? You might be suffering from shift work sleep disorder (SWSD) says a new ad campaign from Frazer, PA-based Cephalon who makes the Schedule IV stimulants Provigil and Nuvigil. One out of four people working nontraditional schedules suffers from this hitherto unrecognized epidemic say radio ads which broke this week here in Chicago.

Crazier Every Day

1 in 76:

http://www.counterpunch.org/levine04282010.html

In, 1987, prior to Prozac hitting the market and the current ubiquitous use of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, the U.S. mental illness disability rate was 1 in every 184 Americans, but by 2007 the mental illness disability rate had more than doubled to 1 in every 76 Americans. Robert Whitaker was curious as to what was causing this dramatic increase in mental illness disability. The answers are in his new book, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America (Crown Publishers, April 2010).

Drugs To Kill By

Societal Ills Compounded:

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/03/military_psychiatric_drugs_031710w/

At least one in six service members is on some form of psychiatric drug.

“It’s really a large-scale experiment. We are experimenting with changing people’s cognition and behavior,” said Dr. Grace Jackson, a former Navy psychiatrist.

A Military Times investigation of electronic records obtained from the Defense Logistics Agency shows DLA spent $1.1 billion on common psychiatric and pain medications from 2001 to 2009. It also shows that use of psychiatric medications has increased dramatically — about 76 percent overall, with some drug types more than doubling — since the start of the current wars.

Why?

Let's Get Out Of Our Stupor:

http://www.alternet.org/story/145481/

In 2006, Americans, who make up

approximately 6 percent of the world's population, consumed 66 percent of

the world's supply of antidepressants. In 2002, more than 13 percent of

Americans were taking Prozac alone. Prozac is one of thirty available

antidepressants. Anti-anxiety drugs, such as Zoloft, are so widely

prescribed that in the year 2005, the $3.1 billion sales of Zoloft

exceeded the sales for Tide detergent.

It's Not Your Fault

EWS Says "A Must Read":

http://counterpunch.org/ 08/20/09

With the innovation of increasingly marketable psychotropic drugs over the past four decades, public health officials have been free to legitimize healthcare budget cuts, hospital closures, and the widespread dismantlement of social services, by devolving responsibility for mental health to the individual and by transforming happiness into a problem of consumer choice. Miserable people – the exhausted assembly-line worker, the desperate college student, the alcoholic veteran – no longer pose a threat to the status quo so long as they agree to self-medicate and to keep themselves, thereby, in a state of artificial equanimity... Let’s be candid. The drug barons’ ongoing campaign to pathologize entirely natural emotional responses to hunger, humiliation, financial insecurity, racism, sexism, overwork and isolation is a mercenary tactic, designed to create markets, maximize profits and minimize dissidence.

We Are Sick

Drugs, in order to Work:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jun/21/mental-health-antidepressants-recession-prescriptions

Fears the recession is affecting the mental health of the nation appear to be borne out by new figures that show prescriptions of antidepressants are soaring.

Shows Weakness. All Mental, Must Move...:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090618&content_id=5400414&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

On Thursday, the Tigers placed the left-hander on the disabled list, retroactive to Monday, for the second time this season because of an anxiety disorder.

Meditation would tell these atheletes, it's only a game (or a job, or a parking ticket):

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Glen-Big-Baby-Davis-lives-up-to-his-nic?urn=nba,127483