Ugh, this always seems to come up in stories with a contemporary setting. I'm wondering whether I should name specific real psychiatric medications in the novel I'm outlining. The medication will be portrayed in a very negative (though not unrealistic) way. There are class action lawsuits against many of the drugs I'm considering naming, and I don't see how they could plausibly object to the portrayal, but I'm still wondering if it wouldn't be better to make up a 'new' drug within the same category (I'm sure most people wouldn't even realize it was made-up if the name sounded 'druggy'). I'm leaning towards making up the specific drug name, because then no-one could possibly object and I could make it have exactly the side-effects I want. Or maybe I'm leaning towards making it up because I'm used to writing stories set on my fantasy world and making everything up. Anyway, which do you think I should do?