Re:A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health tex...
by pksebben on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @02:29PM
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I think Maslow would have a point to make, here.
Privileged societies are more medicated because the most pressing issues to them are (somewhat) soluble using medication. Because they are not imminently worried about housing and sustenance or violence.
Would be odd to consider medicating for fibromyalgia or depression when you're starving and/or being bombed / shot at.
That, alone, could point to two very obvious but very different conclusions.
One is that people in those societies need medications more.
Alternatively, people in these societies get needed medications more.
I suspect the average American gets more therapy than the average Afghan, but I suspect the Afghans would still benefit from it.