[Talisker]

I believe these drugs are the root of liberalism. People joke (or don’t joke) that liberalism is a mental illness, that liberals are a combination of lockstep obedience, brittle shrill rage eruptions, irrational thinking, and a horror movie level of lack of conscience. Well, it just so happens that those are the exact symptoms of taking antidepressants. And Democrats didn’t used to be nearly this insane - they changed quite dramatically at the beginning of the Clinton 90’s. And take a wild guess when antidepressants exploded into break use. Go ahead - guess.

[MeshugeMikey]

[a fool in paradise]

Legalize them and then tax the hell out of them.

If people want to self-medicate, who are we to stop them?

End drug snobbery, why just legalize pot?

[Slyfox]

Why do these drugs continue to be handed out like candy?

Because it is easier to hand someone a prescription than to figure out what may be causing their depression.

I remember reading about a medical conference where it was announced that there soon would be on the market "anti-depressants" that would make their jobs a lot easier. Plus, they stood to make a lot of money. That made all the attendees quite happy.

I swear, the entity that has done this will not be satisfied until they get everyone on meds and adult diapers.

[HangnJudge]

Most anti-anxiety drugs, or anxiolytics, belong to a class of chemical compounds called benzodiazepines, a category which includes alprazolam (Xanax), lorazepam (Ativan), diazepam (Valium), olanzapine (Zyprexa), chlordiazepoxide (Librium), clonazepam (Klonopin, Clozaril, Leponex), and estazolam (Prosom). These drugs are variously marketed as anxiolytics, sedatives, muscle relaxants, hypnotics, or anticonvulsants, implying a specificity of action that does not in fact exist. All these drugs are general central nervous system depressants, essentially no different in their mode of action from opiates or barbiturates or, for that matter, gin.

Ummm.
Fact check

Zyprexa and Clozaril are atypical anti-psychotics, not Benzodiazepines.
They are primarily Dopamine blockers, not GABA agonists