Posthuman Blues

Yohimbe Tree Bark Could Revolutionize Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

"Anxiety disorders affect about 19 million Americans per year, consuming about one-third of total U.S. mental health costs of $148 billion in 1990. They include obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and specific phobias. Although these diseases are generally not deadly, they take an enormous toll in morbidity."

Prozac. Zoloft. Xanax. Is "happiness" becoming a neuropharmacological commodity . . . ?