Mellowed Out in France; Tranquilizer Use Said to Be World's Highest The Washington Post | October 11, 1988| | . This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Traditionally known for their joie de vivre, the modern-day French have become the world's heaviest consumers of tranquilizers and anti-anxiety pills.

Psychologists have not reached any clear conclusions on what this says about changes in the French national character. But concern has grown over the last few years that general practitioners here may be prescribing tranquilizers too readily and their patients may be gulping them down too frequently.

One of the few international comparative studies, published in 1974 in The New England Journal of Medicine, showed that 17 percent of people in ...

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