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1、百憂解帶來的未解之憂When?it?came?to?pharmacological?solutions?to?life'sdespairs,?Aldous?Huxley?was?ahead?of?the?curve.?InHuxley's?1932?novel?about?a?dystopian?future,?theAlphas,?Betas?and?others?populating?his?"Brave?NewWorld"?have?at?their?disposal?a?drug?called?soma.?Alittle?bit?of?it?chases?the?blues?away
2、:"A?gramme"—Huxley?was?English,?remember,?spelling?included?—"is?better?than?a?damn."?With?a?swallow,?negativefeelings?are?dispelled.說到以藥物手段來醫(yī)治生活中的絕望，奧爾德斯·赫胥黎(Aldous?Huxley)可謂走在了時代的前面。在赫胥黎1932年的小說《美麗新世界》(Brave?New?World)中，生活在那個反烏托邦未來世界中的阿爾法、貝塔和其他種姓的人類手頭常備一種名叫“蘇麻”的萬能靈藥，只要一點點就可以驅散生活中的陰霾?！胺巹龠^受煎熬?！敝灰?/p>
3、下藥丸，負面情緒也隨之煙消云散。Prozac,?the?subject?of?this?week's?video?documentary?from?Retro?Report,?is?hardly?soma.?Butits?guiding?spirit?is?not?dissimilar:?A?few?milligrams?of?this?drug?are?preferable?to?the?manydamns?that?lie?at?the?core?of?some?people's?lives.?Looking?back?at?Prozac's?introduction?by?EliLil
4、ly?and?Company?in?1988,?and?hopscotching?to?today,?the?documentary?explores?theenormous?influence,?both?chemical?and?cultural,?that?Prozac?and?its?brethren?have?had?intreating?depression,?a?concern?that?gained?new?resonance?with?the?recent?suicide?of?thecomedian?Robin?Williams.本周（指9月22日那周）的"Retro?R
5、eport"（以重新審視歷史上的重大事件為主題的系列紀錄片）的主題百憂解(Prozac)和“蘇麻”當然不是一碼事，但其宗旨卻并無不同：對某些人而言，服用幾毫克這種藥物總比應付生活中的大堆煩惱合算多了。繼回顧了1988年美國禮來制藥(Eli?Lilly?and?Company)推出百憂解的經(jīng)過之后，這部紀錄片又將視角轉回當下，從化學和文化的雙重角度探討了百憂解及其同類產(chǎn)品在抑郁癥的治療領域造成的巨大影響。由于喜劇演員羅賓·威廉姆斯(Robin?Williams)不久前自殺，抑郁癥又成為當今人們關注的熱點。In?the?late?1980s?and?the?90s,?Prozac?was?wid
6、ely?viewed?as?a?miracle?pill,?a?life?preserverthrown?to?those?who?felt?themselves?drowning?in?the?high?waters?of?mental?anguish.?It?wasthe?star?in?a?class?of?new?pharmaceuticals?known?as?S.S.R.I.s?—?selective?serotonin?reuptakeinhibitors.?Underlying?their?use?is?a?belief?that?depression?is?caused?b
7、y?a?shortage?of?theneurotransmitter?serotonin.?Pump?up?the?levels?of?this?brain?chemical?and,?voilà,?the?mood?lifts.Indeed,?millions?have?embraced?Prozac,?and?swear?by?it.?Depression?left?them?emotionallypa
