Part of an ongoing series about the Opioid Crisis by friend-of-Racket and ER doctor Matt Bivens, who writes on Substack atThe 100 Days.
“Her newly stimulated intellectual curiosity may make her more sensitive to and apprehensive about unstable national and world conditions,” the ad copy intones. “Exposure to new friends and other influences may force her to reevaluate herself and her goals.”
So, she’d need daily sedation once she realized that the carpet-bombing of Vietnam was wrong?
Being lightly drugged every day would help her make friends and set goals?
She’ll be “apprehensive about unstable world conditions.” Well, tell her to get in line. Cold War-erasurveysof adolescents had indeed shown that some were anxious, and cynical about adult society, due to ourinsane embraceof nuclear weapons — then as now, poised forhair-triggerlaunch to wipe outhundreds of millionsof people. In college, a young person might learn more about this, and decide to work to change it.
Or instead we could just start thecollege studenton medication, to help her get comfortable with thegovernment’spsychopathology.
Other reasons to start Librium® were offered:
anxiety about being “in a strange environment”;
“feelings of insecurity” related to “today’s changing morality and the possible consequences of her ‘new freedom’ ” — a very 1960s-kind-of-way to nudge-wink about casual sex;
“emotional tension” from overbearing parents;
Source: Racket News
