I subscribed to Mark Morford months ago on the recommendation of Alice. Mostly he rants about obscure west coast stuff that I dont understand cause I dont live in San Fran, drink vente vanilla half cafe soya lattes or get confused about my gender. But finally a piece close to my heart and closer to my body chemistry.
“Forty-four percent of all Americans. That’s the latest number. Almost half us are popping at least one prescription drug and fully one in six are popping three or more, and the numbers are only increasing and this of course doesn’t count alcohol or cigarettes or bad porn and it doesn’t count the mad megadoses of jingoistic flag-waving God-slappin’ fear — which is, as evidenced by the last election, a stupendously popular FDA-approved drug in its own right. But that’s another column. “
