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Ryan Bridge: Will pill popping really help with our deeper issues? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: If you have a health problem, if you've got a
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  Speaker 1: mental problem, if you can't sleep, if you're obese, don't worry,
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  Speaker 1: settle down. Everything will be fine. All your problems can
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  Speaker 1: be solved with a pill, with an injection, with a prescription,
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  Speaker 1: or even no prescription. That's the clear message that we've
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  Speaker 1: been getting this week from our regulators and from our government.
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  Speaker 1: From Tuesday, the Hollywood Weight Loss Drug wag GOVI, like Ozmpic,
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  Speaker 1: will be available here, not for diabetes, but to shift weight.
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  Speaker 1: People aren't being told not to get obese, they're being
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  Speaker 1: told that once they do get too big, a drug
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  Speaker 1: will make them small again. Malatonin will now be available
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  Speaker 1: over the counter for those who can't sleep. Forget counting
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  Speaker 1: sheep or wearing yourself out with exercise, Pop a pill
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  Speaker 1: and off you go. No nice. You can now get
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  Speaker 1: an ADHD diagnosis from your GP or from a nurse practitioner.
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  Speaker 1: Usually you need to see a psychiatrist for this. We're
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  Speaker 1: prescribing ten times the amount of meds than we were
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  Speaker 1: fifteen odd years ago for eighty eight in this country.
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  Speaker 1: We spoke to a guy this week on the show
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  Speaker 1: with ADHD who said the law change is actually a
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  Speaker 1: good thing. But he also warned about TikTok because apparently
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  Speaker 1: lots of young people are getting diagnosed by TikTok and
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  Speaker 1: they're running around telling everyone they've got a neuro disorder,
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  Speaker 1: when actually they're just spending too much time on their
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  Speaker 1: phones and hunting for likes. The question is whether, as
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  Speaker 1: a society, as a species, even all this pill popping,
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  Speaker 1: all this medication is evolution or insanity. Just the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we're wealthy enough to eat ourselves half to death
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  Speaker 1: then fix it all with a simple twice weekly injection
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  Speaker 1: a sign that we're incredibly smart or incredibly stupid. I
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  Speaker 1: genuinely don't know the answer to that question at this point.
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