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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (76985)	4/7/2000 4:42:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

It is impossible to tell how many people have addictive personalities and how many are merely dependent. While physicians may not prescribe most opiates as a regular thing, there are plenty of maintenance drugs that are in use. There are many physicians who routinely prescribe powerful drugs like Paxil, Zoloft, and Prozac which become habituating and will never be cancelled. I would suspect that 50 to 60% of the people in the middle-aged and elderly groups which I know are on these pills, and will be until they die or run out of money. Almost everyone who can stand it is urged to take an aspirin a day, and beta-blockers are routinely prescribed for people who have not even had a first heart attack. Better drugs will be developed. Usage will become even more routine. Many, like the SRI's and beta-blockers have mood-mellowing (and dulling) effects. More and more people will start to relax-x-x-z-z-z- z -z