James Finn
Sep 7, 2023

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Also on this point, what about all the data that points to the heavy prescription of Valium and other sedatives to housewives in the 1950s through the '70s? So they could cope with stress and feelings of —wait for it— sadness, in marriages they reported felt like cages that kept them from fulfilling dreams and ambitions.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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