Question # 39
In the past thirty years drugs have been discovered that prevent and cure physical disease and reverse the disturbances that occur in certain mental illness,Excitement over what drugs can do has led people to believe that any ailment,infective or psychic,can be relieved by taking a pill,At the first sign of nervousness,they try pep-up pills Medical journals now advertise tranquilizers and other mood.altering drugs doctors prescribe them: and the public expect miracles from them.In such an atmosphere,it is not surprising that drug abuse has spread.i.According to the author,in recent years there has been:
