Prozac: circa 900

Morn struggles through the dusk; so pour me out, I pray, Of wine,
such wine as makes the saddest-hearted gay!
So pure and bright it is, that whether wine in glass Or glass in
wine be held, i' faith, 'tis hard to say.

--From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night--

Do people take too many pills? Well the pills aren't the problem and the practice isn't new.