The United State Of Anxiety

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health concern in the United States, with roughly 40 million people suffering annually and growing rapidly. The United State of Anxiety reveals how much we still don't know about the medication we take to help us cope with today's worried world. The book features the following: The history of benzodiazepines; Why we have medicalised our stress and anxiety; How the pharmaceutical industry exploits our anxious world, creating what has become a silent prescription drug epidemic. It explores the issue of the prescribing and consuming of benzodiazepines in a comprehensive and accessible way and asks the questions millions of people around the world need answering about the drugs we so readily take to deal with our stress and anxiety. Benzodiazepines are psychoactive drugs commonly prescribed to treat anxiety and insomnia. They are also prescribed to treat other conditions including panic, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal. They work quickly and s