The only drug my offspring get that controls mood is sugar.
Parents sometimes push this on their children to help get “crazy money” S.S.I.
Ummmmm.......because Medicare and ObamaCare pick up the cost for these kid’s “free” drugs and pass the cost to the taxpayer?
Very, very interesting, ilovesarah2012. Thanks for posting.
It brings back memories of a conversation with a co-worker 15+ years ago when her daughter decided to put her son (the grandson of co-worker I knew) on ritalin.
The author of this article needs to go back to journalism school. Beyond the fact that a lot of kids are being drugged, I can’t quite tell what exactly is going on.
This title really bugs me. I don’t think big pharma is innocent 100% of the time, but big pharma had products on the market for decades before children were routinely prescribed the meds for mood alteration.
So is this big pharma today, or is it the out of control run-away Leftists trying to socially engineer the next generation?
I would say it’s the Leftists trying to social engineer the next generation.
I’m not here to say that no children benefit from these medications. I am here to say I think they are way over-prescribed.
I’m not a physician or a pharmacist, but somehow kids got through the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s without these sorts of meds. Pray tell how, if kids can’t get through life without them now?
Some friends of ours had a developmentally disabled son and his behavior was awful! Most of it really was bad parenting and they had a Dr. who put him on Ritalin. OMG! It made him into a zombie.
Anyhow, they were good enough parents to realize that they preferred not to have a zombie in their family, they found a very good faith-based psychiatrist and they learned to deal with him.
Further, while her inflammatory and false headline suggests bias against lower class children, she then blithely cites data showing white males are the most frequent recipients. Sorry, this lunatic woman is a waste.
Next time find something worth repeating.
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We are a classless nation. Lower "economic status", maybe. Being someone who has raised myself and family from a lower economic status to a higher economic status, I am proud of our nation for that. Only the left divides us into "classes".