The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers
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The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers
Drugs for anxiety are a billion-dollar business in the United States. Yet in 1955, when the prescription tranquilizer Miltown became available, pharmaceutical executives worried that there was no market. In The Age of Anxiety, historian Andrea Tone provides a comprehensive account of the rise of America's prescription drug culture through the lens of our complicated relationship with tranquilizers.