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" I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. "

Douglas Coupland

Lead

Dead

Amazing

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New York

Live

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Anything

Brain

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Become

You

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Deal

Crowds

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Losers

Fate

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