Anxiety drug prescriptions and autism rates have increased in recent years, and previous studies suggested the two might be connected. But a study of 1.5m children in Taiwan could not find a link.
While society’s understandings of addiction have progressed from the days when sufferers were dismissed as weak-willed hedonists, food addiction is a nascent concept one laden with controversy.
Experts said the new recommendations could spur a surge in the use of anti-anxiety medications, which, some fear, are already at the center of a budding addiction crisis in the US.
If the pharmaceutical drug cartels get their way, every American over the age of eight will soon be advised to get screened for "anxiety," even if they show no symptoms of any kind of [.]