60 million Americans “abuse alcohol”. Doctors wrote 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants during 2010. Unintentional drug overdose death in the US every 19 minutes. “11 of the 12 new-to-market drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration were priced above $100,000 per-patient per-year”

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60 million Americans do abuse alcohol. Don't put it in scare quotes, alcoholism is a real problem that kills people.

That said, I agree that our society has a drug problem. Drug costs must be lowered, by force. And we need to heal the failing social structures that are leading to depression, rather than just handing out happy pills that barely work.