The fashion designer Betsey Johnson for her upcoming fall fashion show in New York has designed invitations to look like prescription bottles filled with breath mints.
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Photo By George Chinsee
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On the one hand, psycho-pharmacotherapy has helped countless people manage symptoms of mental illness.
On the other hand, abuse and overprescribing have created unnecessary suffering
and deaths.
Does it promote irresponsible drug taking?
Or, should we accept that everyone is medicated and move on?
It seems this is yet another example of what some people do for fun (recreationally using anti-anxiety and narcotic drugs; taking Adderall or Ritalin to enhance mental functioning or just to stay awake to drink more) has the potential to be very harmful.
I hope there is a label on that "funny" invitation to warn people that medications need to be treated with caution.
More to come on psychostimulant abuse...
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