About this title: Anxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year: more than double the number thought to have such a disorder in 2001. Anti-anxiety drugs are a billion-dollar business. Yet as recently as 1955, when the first tranquilizer-Miltown-went on the market, pharmaceutical executives worried that there wouldnt be interest in anxiety-relief. At mid-century, talk therapy remained the treatment of choice. But Miltown ...
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2008-12-29
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2008-12-29
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Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2008
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Publisher: Basic Books, Inc., New York
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780465086580ISBN:0465086586
Description: Very Good in Very Good DJ. A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers. 298 pp. 8vo. Hardcover in dustjacket. Bumping to corners and spine ends of jacket and book. Text block corners slightly bumped. With promo material. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780465086580ISBN:0465086586
Description: New. The definitive history of America's tranquilizer culture--from the Miltown sensation in the 1950s to Valium in the 1960s and 1970s to Xanax in the 21st century. read more
"This was an enlightening book, covering not only the history of the United States' great love of tranquilizers of all kinds, but the development of said drugs and the correspondence of an overwhelming national feeling of anxiety with the rise of tranquilizer use.
In addition, Tone's writing style is entertaining and her objectivity when dealing with such a polarizing subject as psychopharmacology made the book ring true in a way a more damning or effusive book would not.
All-in-all, a perfect nonfiction work for summer vacation!"
"Initially this appears to be a very scholarly book on the American view of anxiety and a pharmacological history of tranquilizers. But the book misses on several counts. While the author spends a great deal of time on the women's movement, she never makes the call as to whether she believes women are more prone to anxiety or hysteria, or whether they are legitimately depressed and anxious as a repressed group in society. And she completely misses the importance of the role insurance companies play. Insurers will reimburse for prescription drugs, but often do not cover alternative therapies (talk therapy, relaxation training, yoga, gym memberships, etc.) that go a tremendous distance in relieving anxiety. Also, with the advent of deinstitutionalization, tranquilizers and other drugs allowed people to live outside a structured medical setting. She spends far too much time discussing Miltown, the first tranquilizer to hit the American market, and its cultural effects, and far too little on follow-on drugs. Though heavy with end notes, there is too about what users wrote in letters to the FDA, and too little from more knowledgeable sources, such as the American Medical Assn and the American College of Neuro-Pyschopharmacology. Instead of relying on the records of others, such as Congressional testimony, live interviews from former surgeon generals, for example, and their hindsight, would have added much."
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