Drugs

So are popular products like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Xanax, and Celexa best understood as drugs that change us or as medicines that cure us? What makes them one or the other, beyond social convention and a doctor’s prescription?

Nothing.

Within twelve hours of a missed dose, the patient experiences headache and nausea, progressing to irritability, then ringing in the ears, a tingling sensation in the extremities and scalp, dizziness, diarrhea, violent mood swings, and… well, I don’t know. Probably after a day or three it goes away and you’re back to normal, whatever normal is.