Tranquillisers for the people
“It is impossible to estimate the number of people in the United States today who are living in a state of permanent tranquillity.” So runs a recent newspaper report.
The quantity of tranquillisers consumed in the US and in the UK is beginning to worry medical people on both sides of the Atlantic. According to the Health News Institute, 35 million prescriptions for tranquillisers will be written in the US this year. In the state of Maryland alone, 11 per cent of its drug bill last year was for tranquillisers. The drugs, best known of which…
