Benzodiazapines (Valium derivates like Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, etc.) I don't see prescribed except for also higher income folks. Lower income folks in the USA get beta-blockers like Porpranalol, historically prescribed to reduce "stage fright" but which personally have only made me sleepy and tired. There is a Puritanical drug regime system in the US that basically is of the "patients just need a swift kick in the ass" philosophy that avoids drugs that produce immediate, good-feelin' effects at all costs. This at the same time many depressives or other folks are told they should expect to take anti-depressants their whole lives to manage their illness -- in other words, they should expect to be dependent on these drugs, while they say dependency is bad.
Dependency in one case is not bad, just a medically-calculated outcome that can be dealt with along the line, further on. But dependency in another case -- well, that's horrid.
-B.
joseph noonan wrote:
"That certainly sounds like Prozac, not Valium, which has become rather (in)famous for taking a depressed person and turning the suicidal. I still think it is weird way of treating insomnia when there are perfectly good sleeping pills w/o any such side effects . . ."