[Eleison23]

Several reasons, but one major watershed is because it was viewed as "more humane" to drug us rather than restrain us with shackles or strait-jackets. Invisible chemical restraints are more palatable to the general public, and produce much better income streams for the producers.

[Gormo]

What? How did being "restrained", either via straitjackets or via drugs, ever enter the conversation about people dealing with the routine stresses of life?