That's what everybody did back then. Pop a pill. They also drank like fish, smoked like chimneys and ate fat and cholesterol like they were at an ancient Roman banquet.
I remember on an old Tom Snyder talk show, when he told a doctor that his mother lived to be in her nineties and when she died, it was in her sleep, no warning. Until that moment, the woman drank like a fish, smoked like a chimney (unfiltered Camels) and ate meat and mashed potatoes covered with butter and gravy, followed by chocolate cake for dessert. He wondered why she was able to do that (and by his recollection, many of her relatives and friends) and live to be a totally independent woman way into her nineties, while today if we just do one of those things once, we're dropping dead in our forties. The doctor answered: "No one ever told her those things were bad for her."
Gerard (Who remembers when George Burns, also well into his twilight years, was on Johnny Carson. Here's Johnny scolded him for smoking and drinking at his age, wondering what his doctor said about it. To which George Burns answered: "My doctor's dead.")
