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- From: ah742@yfn.ysu.edu (TJ Martzial)
- Subject: Tranquilizer Orgy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.025143.27546@news.ysu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:51:43 GMT
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- from _The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trip_
- by Stephanie Coontz, Basic Boks 1992
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- >Tranquilizers were developed in the '50's in response to a need that
- >physicians explicitly saw as female. Virtually non-existent in 1955,
- >tranquilizer consumption ...soared to 1.15 MILLION pounds by 1959.
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- An incredible statistic IMHO, thought it warranted posting
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- She goes running for the shelter of her mother's little helper
- Helps her get her through the day
- Helps her on her busy way.
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