I read the list properly and I thought the same about digoxin. Who in the name of fuck is buying bootleg heart pills from chinamen on the Internet?
Other Chinamen, most likely.
There's also a bullshit belief among some boomers that digoxin is a kind of "tonic" (back in the 1960s there were even formulations of digitoxin in low doses compounded with other alkaloids and B-vitamins on sale for this "purpose").
In some other thread I was talking about a coworker that is pretty broken by the news cycle and woke politics. Still masking, a massive TRA, BLM posters, Ukrainian flag etc. I really do wonder what people like him were like 50 years ago, 100 years ago, and then some. Dead in a foxhole, mental ward?
100 years ago(1920s) he would probably have been a Nazi or Stalinist and not been able to shut his trap about that.
50 years ago ('70s) he'd have been a hippie of the Tommy Tooter sort or a member of some cult.
As for the state of mental health in those days, Freudian psychoanalysis was still pretty much in vogue even by the '70s.
Although there is a lot of fair criticism of this form of therapy (its incessant harping on sex to the exclusion of anything else and the very long treatment times allowing practitioners to string patients along for cash), it could be useful in getting to the root cause of a person's problems and addressing them.
The thing that has remained unchanged is the fact that the patient has to realise that he has a problem and want to address it before any sort of therapy can help him.
To paraphrase a well-known racist saying:
"You can take the cow out of the pasture, but you can
not take the pasture out of the cow"
