Isolation

The sale of neuro-psychiatric drugs like Xanax and Zoloft have increase dramatically in the past few years and there are a number of reasons given for this one of which is isolation and the pandemic made this even worse. One thing that has changed in recent years as the drug use increased was the number of smart phones. People spend a large amount of time on their phone and often this replaces face time and this adds to the isolationism. In general conversation there is a lot of social interaction that is not present on the phone. Young people spend a lot of time playing computer games and that adds to the alone time. Wearing masks is also an impediment to social interaction.