Is Everyone In New York Popping A Ton Of Pills? [I Need A New Drug]

Published: December 3, 2007, 4:26 pm

In this weekend’s Page Six magazine, we met “Andy,” a 30-year-old financial manager who occasionally supplements his Propecia, Ambien, Viagra, and Effexor regimen with a Valium or three when a day is “rougher than usual” and the occasional Oxy to improve his beer buzz. We also encountered Kenny, a 27-year-old graphic designer who loves Concerta, Wellbutrin, Klonopin and grapefruit seed extract, and, most sadly, Sylvia, a 31-year-old lawyer who gets through her days with Prozac, Klonopin and Adderall: “I have a big fear of addiction with [Klonopin], but today was a bad depression day so I took it at work.” Holy shit, this makes it seen like people take a ton of prescription drugs! Feeling undermedicated, we immediately started asking everyone we know whether they were on something. Of twenty-one people, only three turned out to be pill-poppers: one was on Prozac and the other two took Wellbutrin. Everyone else was either miraculously

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