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[Ghoulish Delight]

My distaste is less with the existence of the drugs, because there are surely valid reasons for addressing extreme cases of even the most innocuous sounding things (e.g., as Prudence pointed out, it's one thing if you twitch your leg under your desk at work all day, it's another if it prevents you from sleeping). What I have a problem with is the direct-to-consumer marketing. The culture of self-diagnosis and "ask your doctor for a prescription" is out of control. The combination of advertising-driven demand, doctors who are too willing to cave to their patients' begging, doctors who just don't care and want the kickbacks, and doctors who genuinely want to help but have been suckered in themselves means that the more the consumer knows, the more the consumer will be unneccesarily over medicated.