What's Your Favorite Song About Drugs?
Whether they're required or recreational, drugs are everywhere. What's your favorite musical concoction on the subject?
I take a host of medications to begin each and every day. Some help me to literally breathe easier. Another helps to manage my chronic acid reflux. A pair of pills that I pop each day are a powerful stimulant that somehow makes me less scatterbrained and anxious. The final duo are a delicately tuned combination of a mood enhancement drug and an inhibitor to fight my depression and anxiety.
It’s a lot.
It took years to reach this point of prescription, though. I wasn't diagnosed with mental illness until well into my thirties and I did not get any treatment for my ADHD until I was almost fifty. Even in the few years since that treatment began, I have tried a number of medications, dosages, and combinations. Largely it has been a work of trial and error. Right now, things seem to be working about as well as ever in this regard and I can only hope we ca…
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