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...Afterwards, says his publisher, "his childhood took a turn for the bizarre with electroshock machine fun and games; month-long family/patient sleep-overs on the front lawn; a physician-assisted fake suicide attempt to get excused from school forever; a pedophile living in the barn; Lithium, Valium, and Halcyon eaten like candy, and much more." The therapist was later arrested for fraud. Former TIME writer Kurt Andersen blurbs the book enthusiastically. "I was reminded of Roald Dahl's 'Boy' and 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'...Burroughs has produced a memoir that's funny and sharp but also humane...
...they had used illegal substances in the past month; by the time they're in the 18-to-25 age bracket, it's 16%. For most substances, boys and girls use at similar rates. But girls ages 12 to 17 are more likely to abuse psychotherapeutic drugs such as Valium. They are also more likely to have used inhalants--such as air freshener, glue, paint or cooking spray--in the past month. A total of 6.2 million American girls and women have risked brain damage and death by "huffing" these common household products to get high...
...industry have become alarmed by the huge cost of such symptoms in absenteeism, company medical expenses and lost productivity...It is a sorry sign of the times that the three best-selling drugs in the country are an ulcer medication (Tagamet), a hypertension drug (Inderal) and a tranquilizer (Valium)...No one really knows if there is more stress now than in the past, but many experts believe it has become more pervasive. "We live in a world of uncertainties," says Harvard's [Herbert] Benson, "everything from nuclear threat to job insecurity to the near assassination of the President...
Unfortunately, there’s no magic pill for romantic recovery, though some of my colleagues speak well of Valium. The humanist tradition sanctions only the passage of time, the discipline of meditation and perhaps the vigorous consumption of chocolate...
...when Noelle Bush, daughter of Florida Governor Jeb Bush (and the President's niece), was arrested in Tallahassee trying to buy Xanax, having allegedly borrowed the name of a retired doctor and called in a bogus prescription. Xanax, after all, is a widely prescribed antianxiety medication--a cousin of Valium--and hardly fits the profile of a Gen X party drug...