Roxane Harpster

“If a child was sick, maybe her mother was tense. Valium was marketed above all to women, pitched as way of bearing the stress of lives as wives and mothers. Before the feminist movement, women were presumed to need that kind of help for the rest of their lives, thus there was no worry then about its addictiveness.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic