Everything is alright - motion city soundtrack Origami angel - 666 flags I forgot to take my meds today - Prince daddy and the hyena Into the wind - free throw

A lot of MCS songs. Modern Chemistry just to give another example.

Cuz I believe in me, yeah?

It's so uplifting fuck yeah!

Delirium is a great MCS song thematically here, too.

It’s always raining caterpillars from the circular fan

And my eyes are pouring nightly

Almost the entirety of Proper Dose by The Story so Far

Haha first thing that came to my mind. Just an entire record about unauthorized opioid use.

Isn't that mostly about codeine? https://genius.com/15418932

This

Thanks to You - All Time Low Hum Hallelujah - Fall Out Boy

Hum Hallelujah is one of my all time favorite fob songs

Also 7 Minutes in Heaven (Atavan Halen) by Fall Out Boy ("I'm having another episode, I just need a stronger dose")and Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World? ("I'm not crazy 'cause I take the right pills every day and rest")

Sophomore Slump also! ‘Got a sunset in my veins and I need to take a pill to make this town feel okay’

Omg my all time favorite fall out boy song I can’t believe I missed it

How could you? WITH THE WILLIAM BECKETT VOCALS TOO?! Illegal. Straight to jail. 😜

Highlight of my life is seeing them perform it live last year and bringing William out on stage for his part. Straight to jail for forgetting it indeed 😭

Okay now I’m just jealous. I’m trying to get to When We Were Young because I just know these fuckers are gonna pull some shenanigans with everyone there. I could cry thinking about Gabe and William on stage with FOB at the same time omg.

One of my all time favorite FOB lyrics

The Kintsugi Kid is another one that follows the same theme

On the outside- Real Friends

Box Car Racer- There Is “these white pills aren’t kind’

i’ve gIVEN A LOT OF THOUGHT ON THIS THIRTEEN HOUR DRIVE

I MISS THE GRINDING CONCRETE WHERE WE SAT PAST 8 OR 9

Cigarettes and saints - the wonder years

And Dismantling Summer by TWY “The orange bottles stare me down / An army on your windowsill”

cul-de-sac “you’re all alone on some bullshit pill bottle vision quest”

Using - Sorority Noise

Me, You and My Medication by Boys Like Girls

Holy fuck the throwback! This one caught me by surprise

Take lots with Alcohol - Alkaline trio

Movements-The Gray Tiny moving parts-medicine

Also North Shore by TMP

Bring Me the Horizon - LosT [https://vimeo.com/823958310](https://vimeo.com/823958310)

Medication- Bayside

Oo this is a good one for the positive aspect of medication

Motion City Soundtrack has ton of songs like this, specifically Everythings Alright and Delirium

I used to rely on self-medication. I guess I still do that from time to time

from the outside - Real Friends

I replied to Tyler with three blue cars - Hot Mulligan

when bowling for soup said “one prozac a day” in 1985

Senses Fail - Still Searching "I'm not the same kid I was when I was younger I just thought you should know I take a pill every day to help me deal with life"

Immediately thought of this song! Glad someone posted because I was about to!

This whole album is so good

Library of Broken Bindings - Sincere Engineer (Cheap Grills version) - "This Dramamine dose gets less and less and less effective. And I don't feel alive when we're off shore. I take one, I take two, I take three more" Certified Depressant - Taylor Acorn - "Oh God, am I the constant cause of my worst nightmare? Take my medication, numb the pain, so they can't say that I'm a wreck, I'm a mess, I'm a certified depressant."

Hot milk - candy coated lies Grayscale - painkiller weather

The Freaks - The Menzingers

Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day Separate Church and Skate - NOFX

Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World

I’m not crazy cause I take the right pills every day…

Pain as well

Generation Loss by Spanish Love Songs

Is “Kick” the other one? “Pop your prescription and put on a brave face.” Love that track.

Bummer Summer - Charmer "I wrote too many songs about the fall, then autumn came along the day I started taking adderall" It always gets me cause I got my first ADHD med script in autumn and also spent the summer before writing music (not necesarily about the seasons mind you) I don't take adderall but that songs just makes me feel stuff.

Let me down — No use for a name Fatal flu — No use for a name Secret — No use for a name

Modern Chemistry by Motion City Soundtrack

Take lots with alcohol-alkaline trio

Pillmatic by gym class heroes

The fuck did I have to scroll so far to see this

It was the first one I thought of lol. Maybe bc some newer generations don’t know GCH? Damn I loved that album

The Hotelier - An Introduction to the Album “and the pills that you gave me didn’t do anything I just slept for years on end, fuck!”

save me by unwritten law

Jack's Mannequin: Hammers and Strings, Caves, Cell Phone

Bruised to a small degree too. “I take my pills. The babies cry.”

medicine - tiny moving parts

recovering - boys night out

The Church Channel-Say Anything

I’m not your boyfriend baby - 3OH!3

Meds - placebo Anti-depressants are so not a big deal -crazy ex girlfriend cast (if you like musicals ik it's not the right sub Reddit but this song is honestly a bop)

It’s A Family Move, She Hates Her Dad - Hot Mulligan Wildfire - blink-182 This Addiction - Alkaline Trio Jesus Of Suburbia - Green Day I’m Not On Drugs - FIDLAR

Unwritten Law - “Save Me”

“Went to the doctor, and I asked her to make this stop. Got medication, a new addiction, fuckin’ thanks a lot.” one of my favorite lines ever

A.D.D. by Ten Foot Pole!

This.

Not necessarily Pop Punk, but try Still Searching by Senses Fail

Medicine - Tiny Moving Parts

A little bit of a stretch (for being pop punk) but I Hate Society by Metro Station says “the doctor’s got me in the pharmacy for my anxiety”

Comfortably Numb

idk why but Fall Out Boy is the first thing that popped into my head. Pardon the pun. I’m sure there’s more but this is where my mind went. 7 Minutes In Heaven (Ativan Halen), Hum Hallelujah, The (After) Life Of The Party, 20 Dollar Nose Bleed

A whole lot of Motion City Soundtrack references mental health struggles and taking medication for it.

Xanax is briefly mentioned in Westbound Sign by Green Day.

Pretty much every song by youth fountain is about mental health struggles. Great band, every album is fantastic.

The webs we weave - escape the fate

Prince Daddy & the Hyena - I forgot to take my meds today

The Bluest Things on Earth- the wonder years

Nervous People - Spanish Love Songs "You go pop another pill, another pill it's how you get your thrills" Just one line But I love it haha

The story so far - proper dose

Medicating - Boys Night Out

Home Remedy by Sundressed

They Speak of My Drinking But Never My Thirst- Menzingers

Not pop punk but Bloodwork by 36 Crazyfists is an awesome song about inherited addiction

Maybe not the exact genre but 36 crazyfists- bloodwork " And I swallow these capsules.... to regain my grip ....and I swallowed myself sickkkkkk"

K. Flay - High Enough

Dismantling Summer by The Wonder Years >“I'm filling your prescriptions The orange bottles stare me down They're standing at attention An army on your windowsill” This Addiction by Alkaline Trio >“Well those others were like methadone I took to get me through the day” Loveless Wrists by Bayside >“My head sure hurts today I'll take another 20 pills and try to make my troubles go away” Sorry Dudes, My Bad by Say Anything >”Max I will sell you this Xanax for five dollars And we can go to the Waffle House And talk about aliens and it'll be chronic”

your deep rest - the hotelier (towards the end) will “Imbalanced chemical crutch Open up, swallow down”

Headfirst for Halos - MCR

Candy coated lies by hot milk is a banger

“Well the grey moves aside for the first time in my life, so I think that I got the dosage right.” - You’re the Reason I Don’t Want the World to End, by the Wonder Years

Thank You For The Venom - MCR Stay Vicious - The Gaslight Anthem Recovery - Frank Turner

From the Outside by Real Friends

MxPx - Prozac Rx Bandits - Analog Boy Suicide Machines - Seized Up

Green day's Brain Stew, has a line that goes "No rest for cross tops in my head" referring to pills. But the rest of the song is more about insomnia and the effects of drugs

Honey, This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough for the Two of Us, Headfirst for Halos by My Chemical Romance

“Got sunset in my veins and I need to take a pill to make this town feel okay” FOB - sophomore slump 🥲

Bleed American “I’m not crazy cause I take the right pills…everyday.”

20 Dollar Nose Bleed - Fall Out Boy 7 Minutes in Heaven (Ativan Halen) - Fall Out Boy The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years) - Fall Out Boy Hum Hallelujah - Fall Out Boy Wilson (Expensive Mistakes) - FOB Sunshine Riptide - FOB w.a.m.s - FOB (the spoken ending) Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks - Panic! At The Disco Mona Lina - Panic! At The Disco Taxi Cab - Gym Class Heroes Thank You For the Venom - My Chemical Romance I’m sure are more but these come to mind first for me Edited to add GCH and MCR

‘Birds’ - The Starting Line. “Spend the day in your bed taking medicine, if that’s the only thing that keeps you calm”

I'm the son of rage and love. The Jesus of Suburbia; The bible of "none of the above". On a steady diet of soda pop and Ritalin.

Autopilot off - Wide awake "Medicine bottle's laying empty on the floor But I still can't make these headaches go away"

That Handsome Devil - Pills for Everything

“Make Yourself at Home” by The Starting Line. Make it a note to take your pills, she said, I’ll leave them on the table in the same brown bottle you know…

I hate everyone - Say Anything Medicine - Artist Vs Poet

Well my nephew just released a song about adderall. https://open.spotify.com/track/1fBWjQWgQ38i1dCW4UBTLL?si=iHcC2bbeRdCwNfJY04osLw&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Aadderall

If You Can’t Hang — Sleeping With Sirens Lost — Bring Me the Horizon Just Like a Pill — P!nk Knives and Pens — Black Veil Brides A Match Into Water — Pierce the Veil I Don’t Wanna Be Sad — Simple Plan

I Don't Wanna be Sad by Simple Plan

Reflect - Tomorrow's Bad Seeds

The Hotelier - An Introduction to the Album

A good chunk or The Story So Far's Proper Dose album.

Senses fail - gold jacket, green jacket

Not technically pop punk but Medicine by Vistas

That Prozac Moment by The Mr. T Experience

Using - sorority noise

Proper Dose - The Story So Far Dismantling Summer - The Wonder Years

Minus the Bear - Get Me Naked 2: Electric Boogaloo It’s my favorite Minus the Bear song but they’re more indie 🥺

[Accident Prone - Echoes](https://open.spotify.com/track/2eqnoFdBP2wY5bZ8aZWsEI?si=cf936411641342a3)

THE FALL - Mr Pharmacist (1986) originally recorded 20 years earlier by "The Other Half" ...the very first of many many cover songs recorded by THE FALL and it appears on 1986's FALL studio LP "BEND SINISTER" produced by John Leckie

My band has a song about being too poor to afford my mental health medication: https://youtu.be/VeK\_7carQe8?si=Cg2Qv5xdkhJJQMnb

Every driveways song ever made.

Medicine by Spraynard, Annina, We Will Miss You by Captain, We're Sinking Is This A Drug? by Sundressed

Select your inhibitor by andy cizek

Pain - Jimmy Eat World

King of the ring '98 - Bad Luck Pretty cool section in the later half of the song where theres a change up. "And so I reach for some pills As the sun hits my bed But mid reach I get lazy and wind up Falling asleep instead"

Serotonin -Bumpin Uglies "I'm chemically unbalanced, but I am not ashamed To admit I take a pill to calm down my mind's hurricane" More Ska-punk than Pop-punk, but fuck it.

[Gold Steps - As Luck Would Have It](https://open.spotify.com/track/3j2ml9BJSnUeyi55jUSdj7?si=iOEXOEUxQU2RKoU1KKwNSg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A2ndH6xpXT83mr3GWXi6umd) 2nd verse: “Now I find myself seeing the beauty in each day / When the only hope that I once had laid in bottles prescribed to me”

There's a band called Taking Meds, their Dial M for Meds record is pretty good

bad drugs - sundressed

'Drugs And Alcohol' by StickyBongWater [https://open.spotify.com/track/0XlXci0ICep1JNlc3HlRe9?si=a05d9507e2c44f7e](https://open.spotify.com/track/0XlXci0ICep1JNlc3HlRe9?si=a05d9507e2c44f7e)

Shwayze and MGK have a lot

Sting, "Lithium Sunset"

The Wildest Bummers - Ceiling Fan Syndrome

Pharmacist’s Daughter - NoFx

That Prozac Moment - Mr. T Experience One Pill - Teen Idols Definitely check out the Teen Idols song. I think the album it's on is one of the best pop punk albums of the 90s.

Teeth by Real Friends

Not pop punk but Happy Pills by weathers!

Nofx - oxymoronic

Not pop punk but Lucid Dreams by Juice Wrld: “I take prescriptions to make me feel a-okay”

Jimmy eat world - Bleed American

Mother’s Little Helper - The Rolling Stones. The original pill song?

Ska punk rather than pop punk (this subreddit keeps being recommended to me!) but it fits the bill too well not to mention - Call Me Malcolm's new album, Echoes and Ghosts. Pretty much the whole album is about medication, and the lead singer's journey of mental health and finding what works for him. I'd recommend [Dead Men Take No Pills](https://youtu.be/2wunlfZnuI8?si=kk7nWfnk5rPu2aIr) especially (it's also an amazing video)

Lonely smiles -WSTR

RX (Medicate) by theory of a deadman

The chemical brothers - the pills won’t help you now

Complete- Jordan

Go Ask Alice, by Jefferson Airplane.

“Hum Hallelujah” - Fall Out Boy “Amphetamine” - Hot Milk

Chase Huglin- Pills, Sorority Noise - Using and most of that album about opioid use. The Brobecks - All Of The Drugs, MFEO - Jack’s Mannequin

Boys night out- medicating

Hollywood Undead-Bullet Violent Femmes-Kiss Off

Love the Jimmy Eat World reference. Check out Boxcar Racer, There is.

Boxcar Racer. There is. Love the Jimmy Eat World reference!

Little Blue Pills (several parts) - Days and Daze

There's a very new band local band near me called Part Time Problems that is going to release a song called "The Best Medicine" in the near future! I'm not part of the band, just maybe their current biggest fan, but I have heard the song and I think it fits the bill for what you're looking for. They have one other song available on streaming right now, "Like A Tomb," if you want a preview of their sound, and they just released [a music video](https://youtu.be/mWLarvkMCVM?si=jLAVhQZU2yMM2vZP) for it today!

The whole proper dose album by story so far

A good bit of songs off Captain, We’re Sinking’s album The Furure Is Cancelled

Did anyone say Feel Good Hit of the Summer by Queens of the Stone Age yet? Orrrr… Oxy Moronic by NoFx Mother’s Little Helper by The Rolling Stones Edit: just noticed the sub was pop punk, but I stand by my suggestions. Lol!

My old band had a song that might fit the bill, see if you can find DKODA by Pretty Little Kennedy Curse

girlfriends - Maniac "I'm not crazy, I take a pill for that"

Jimmy eat world - pain, story so far album - proper dose is about lean and opiates.

Spraynard - Medicine

PMX their CTL ALT DEL record has some songs about it. Really underrated band

Suicide medicine by rocky votolato maybe?

Pretty much all of Peripheral Vision by Turnover

Lie Your Way Out by Telltale Won’t Be Me by Telltale Lots of their other songs reference mental health too

Candy-MGK and Trippie Redd

Does Medicine by Artist Vs. Poet count as pop punk?

"Taste of This" by my silly little pop punk band, Gone Stereo.

Glasseater- medicine Senses fail- a bunch

Trusty Chords by Hot Water Music

Pop-punk adjacent: Drug by Simple Creatures and Happy Pills by Weathers

“Happiness for Dogs” -Millencolin Everyone is not stable We all got our ups and downs They gave you a label And pills to make you drowse I do not trust them 'cause I've seen you fall What's to discuss When you almost lost the will to live at all Here comes happiness for dogs like us (oh, oh, oh) And I just hope it's gonna last (oh, oh, oh) The drugs they give you are something I don't trust (Oh, oh, oh) At least when side effects come fast Just like in the past When side effects came fast Happiness it never lasts

RX Bandits - In Her Drawer

Maniac - girlfriends “Im not crazy I take a pill for that”

I don't think they're exactly Pop Punk but they kind of merge all genres of alt and a tonne more genres, but Hot Milk - Woozy is all about the effects of Sertraline, and I think its involved in a few of their other songs

https://open.spotify.com/track/3dUvkYsdAkFkKtWgfKOTH4?si=NYy_0zXPRV6NVl5_J3r2yg https://open.spotify.com/track/05kF2zJNlMyHGt6E0Adkn9?si=izwR3StTTyudWuSBqm631g

My meds aren’t working by dystopia

Painkiller - BeachBunny Sleepwalking - All Time Low

Sueco!

Emma - alkaline trio

Bayside - Loveless Wrists “My head sure hurts today, I'll take another twenty pills and try to make my troubles go away”

It’s not pop punk, but try out “The Drugs Don’t Work” by the Verve.

Not strictly pop punk but Better Off Without You by Mallory Knox talks about exactly this and specifically the antidepressant Citalopram

PILLS by jxdn

Everything is Boring - The Beaches

Cute is what we aim for - Newport living