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Tucker Carlson: “Very common drugs in this country.”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

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Published August 29, 2025 | Video Starts at 1:10:02

These are awful drugs. They're usually used for anxiety and insomnia. And what are the brand names on those? Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Temazepam. Yeah, Very common drugs in this country. Really? Yeah, their use is declining, but they are still, they're still quite common. The main issue with them is that they, God, they feel good. (1:10:02–1:10:05)

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“As the prescription rate for these drugs has risen, so is the suicide rate.”
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“There has been a 500% increase in the use of these drugs [antidepressants].”
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“Is it possible that if you've got 10% of the population on these drugs that there's a connection there?”
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“The increase in school shootings coincides with almost precisely coincides with this massive increase in the prescription of these drugs.”
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“More people are killing themselves and the drugs are prescribed in order to make you not kill yourself.”
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“Prozac was hailed as a wonder drug that was going to fix America's psychiatric problems. And it didn't.”
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“It changed, among other things, the practice of psychiatry completely.”
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“Privacy is the basis of freedom. No privacy, no freedom.”
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“Every time people go online, no matter what device they use, unless they're protected, big data harvesters track them.”
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“They collect personal information, and they sell it to advertisers, scammers, even political groups.”
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“ExpressVPN prevents all of that, which is a relief.”
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“If you're telling me there's a biological basis for anything, but you can't show it, then you're lying.”
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“Society's getting crappier and more dysfunctional. That makes people sad.”
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“If there's no difference between the brain of a depressed person and a happy person, then you can't really say there's a known biological…”
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“Meriwether Farms raises their cattle in the U.S. in Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado.”
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“They prepare their meat themselves in their facilities in this country.”
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“No middlemen, no outsourcing, no foreign beef sneaking through a back door.”
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“We have a great meat, the best meat here in the United States.”
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“Well, for benzodiazepines, it's like instant relief.”
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“Millions and millions of people.”
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“The food that we eat provided produced by huge food companies, Big Food in conjunction with pharma, is destroying our health, making this a…”
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“The levels of chronic disease are beyond belief.”
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“Big tech, big pharma and big food combined together to form an incredibly malevolent force, pumping you full of garbage, unhealthy food with…”
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“Regulators are cut off from the effects of the drugs that they're regulating because they're not treating patients.”
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“Clinicians, of physicians prescribing these drugs to individual people with whom they're in regular contact...don't notice that these people…”
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“The culture of medicine in this country is really kind of anti human.”
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“Depression's a medical...I'm happy to acknowledge it's a medical problem.”
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“It's more real than a serotonin imbalance.”
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“Psychiatrists in this country are unique among mental health professionals in that they can prescribe the drugs.”
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“Basically, you're castrating people.”
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“So you believe that cannabis use can lead to schizophrenia?”
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