polypharmacy is rampant in psychiatry
Got a complaint, here's a pill

That's 'cause they don't have the MJ market cornered like they do for the other drugs. They should just make a GM version of MJ so they feel they control that too.

yeah, I have had such a laugh at people wanting me to relax and calm down and urging xanax or some other benzodiazepine on me but flinching in horror if I say "I prefer a glass of sherry or burgundy, it doesn't last so long or make me groggy or forgetful, and if I suddenly can't get to the store to buy some I won't have convulsions, which *will* happen if for some reason I miss a couple doses of benzo after you get me hooked. people have been having a cocktail to relax for thousands of years, why should I pay a doctor to get a chillpill?"

if I suddenly can't get to the store to buy some I won't have convulsions

That's our reality now. Sure dangerous medical conditions cannot stay untreated, but with indiscrete, bureaucratic approach present health care inflict more harm, than benefit. So often harm only, that's calling iatrogenesis. Long lasting side, adverse and hidden effects of chemical, synthetic drugs simply impossible to count as stars on a sky.