According to a 2006 survey by the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, almost all working Americans suffer anxiety or stress from daily living. This hurried and pressured culture contributed to physical, mental, and emotional conditions and increased use and abuse of prescription medications such as tranquilizers, antidepressants, and anti-anxiety medications. It also affects abuse of over-the-counter medications for the production of methamphetamines and Robbotripping (abuse of cold medicine to get high), as well as rises in alcoholism, obesity, suicide, drug addiction, cigarette addiction, and other harmful behaviors.

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