This normalization has led to a dangerous increase of medications being prescribed to patients, bringing into question the ethics of pharmacology and drug use today. THE menial staff of the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying consisted of one hundred and sixty-two Deltas divided into two Bokanovsky Groups of eighty-four red. This includes how addiction to prescription drugs is normalized over other forms of drug addiction. While soma is a fictitious drug, its effects and the culture surrounding it, as this paper will present, parallel the abuse of prescription medications today. The novel suggests the central characters are addicted to soma, a notion that is normal for all of the citizens living in this society. That soma is sprayed into the air to quiet mobs further illustrates the drugs primary purpose of sedating masses and stabilizing society. It is one of many tools used by the world leaders to dehumanize and establish control over the citizens. Soma is a synthetic drug manufactured and distributed by the government which produces euphoric feelings and hallucinations.
It creates an artificial feeling of happiness. In his novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a dystopian society in which the citizens are conditioned from birth to be consumers of soma. Soma is a sedative and euphoric drug which controls the masses in the Brave New World. Overmedication and Drug Ethics: Analyzing the Use of Soma in Huxley’s Brave New World
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