I don’t watch very much TV because of things like this. I am not surprised as Billy Ray’s family is no more than a money making machine. Proof of their poor judgment will be 10 years in the future.

You may prefer colleges where over 60% of the females are on antidepressants. I don’t.

This phenomen is neither new nor singular.

For thousands of years, humans have sipped, swallowed and chewed endless remedies to soothe frayed nerves: fermented ales in medieval Europe, coca tea and tobacco in the ancient Americas, and kava kava concoctions in the South Pacific, to name a few. For the last century or so, with varied success, researchers have tried to perfect the packaging of anxiety relief into a simple little pill.

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Demand for Miltown was unexpected and unprecedented. Millions of Americans begged their doctors for prescriptions. By 1957, a prescription for Miltown was filled an average of every second in the U.S.

Suburbs became the site for Miltown parties, cocktails were named for the pill (a Miltown replaced the olive in a Miltini) and high-end jewelers designed rings with compartments to hold the “tranks.” The “peace pills” were particularly popular in Hollywood, and television host Milton Berle joked on-air (and uncompensated by Wallace) that he was considering changing his name to Miltown.

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And this was before the 60′s.

Most prescriptions of antidepressants are not because of clinical depression but because of “feeling better”.

What we have missed is to teach our children that liberties go together with responsibility.

@ LanceKates:

Well lets hope that one day we uncultured americans can one day be as good as you europeans……

Show me where I’ve written one word about “uncultured americans” and where I’ve written that Europeans are better. It’s not the fault of the Europeans that two to three times more of US-Americans use antidepressants than Europeans and we had our 60′s sexual revolution too.

Chad had 4 long ones, four beers and fun for all…

Well lets hope that one day we uncultured americans can one day be as good as you europeans……

It was rather exceptional for a child to be raised in a fatherless home.

Not in Europe with all those warwidows and their children.

You may prefer cities where one half of all pregnancies are aborted and over 80% of children are born fatherless. I don’t.

This is a strawman argument. I don’t know a single city in Europe where half of the pregnancies are aborted and 80% of children are fatherless.

Saying “Good morning”on most days is hypocrisy. Hooking up with a guy you barely know because all the girls do and if you don’t he wn’t want to go out with you again is hypocrisy. Pretending you don’t want marriage and children even more than a career is hypocrisy. Pretending I’m just not into politics rather than admitting I’m a conservative where I work is hypocrisy.

To compare those hypocrisies with the hypocrisy of sexual mores in the 60′s is inadequate.

You may prefer colleges where over 60% of the females are on antidepressants. I don’t.

This is a specific problem of the USA. In Europe we don’t use that much antidepressants and I know a lot about students.

JUSTDANNY,

Good to have the honor of posting along with you on this board.