Comments on: Rise In Anti-Psychotic Drug Use By Kids

Study Shows U.S. Children Prescribed Drugs At Rate Six-Times Higher Than In U.K.

[shanev137]

People don''t need to pay for prescription drugs. If you need some, all you have to do is drink some non-R.O. water.

[cyberus-2009]

Gee ... given that any kid that doesn''t act like a drone in school is sent home with a letter telling the parents that they need to drug their kid into a stupor before returning to school this is no surprise.

[displeased]

These will be the same kids that will someday go on suicidal shooting sprees. But yet, according to some people, it will be the gun''s fault. This country is full of depressed prescription drug addicts on the verge of snapping. It will most likely get worse as times get harder.

[raskal_2]

Boy, that is a neat way to also teach your children to be addicted. Let us see...Immediate gratification, "that child of mine will not rest, I need some thing to calm him down"...or, "here kid, this little pill will make you feel better. to "My kid will not stay out of my drugs...oops!!! "My kid now needs addiction counseling. In America there is the banner statement of all time..."Fast, temporary relief."
A person or child cannot mature without feeling the losses and pain of life, and you better face a fear or two.

[lefttech]

This is very disturbing. Coming of age in the 70s, I never would have imagined so corporatist a culture coming about in my wildest nightmares-- advertising of prescription mind drugs on television so that emfeebled-yet-wealthy consumers will go demand it of their Doc who has 4 minutes to spend on each patient?? Blech. Single Payer is the only way to cut out the middlemen-- obscenely rich Insurance and Drug conglomerates. Physicians for a Nat''l Health Plan: www.pnhp.org
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[rf35]

The rise in anti-psychotic drug use would be due to the increase in psychotic kids! I see these sub-humans running through the stores and malls all over and think, "where the hell are their parents?" Then I realize that their parents often don''t care, and the ones who do can''t keep up with them. I bet if people put a little thought into what they were doing instead of popping out half a dozen babies because that''s what they figure life is all about this country wouldn''t be where it is now...sliding into a pit of poverty, recession, environmental destruction, and war.

[rushman71]

What really needs to be done is to do away with these man-made drugs and legalize the naturaly produced herb--cannabis!!! You won''t die from it and it doesn''t make you want to kill yourself.
Legalize Marijuana!!! For a better, peaceful America!!!

[providence_8]

Kids want to escape reality because of the need in them to love and be loved? They make wrong choices and then are hook? To get unhooked go to this address for answers www.shipwrecksoul.blogspot.com . Maybe with the right course for choice these kids will not get hooked?

[lochlan-2009]

You think?

Pharmaceutical companies are the "Drug Cartel", hospitals/doctors are the "pushers", and America''s children (well, anybody actually) are their "users"'' and the FDA is the bribed officer.

[a-ji]

darnedsocks,

Good point! Pills does more harm than good nowadays.

[tomanyt]

I agree with darnedsocks...We, as a society, are over medicated.

[darnedsocks]

THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IS CORRUPT AND IT PRESSURES AND BRAINWASHES DOCTORS INTO DISTRIBUTING THEIR DANGEROUS DRUGS! DOCTORS IN THE U.S. ARE NOT TAUGHT HOW TO DOCTOR....THEY ARE TAUGHT HOW TO "THROW PILLS AT THE PROBLEM" INSTEAD OF GETTING TO THE "ROOT" OF THE PROBLEM! MOST OF THE PROBLEMS ARE DUE TO THE FACT THAT CHILDREN ARE NOT GETTING THE PROPER ATTENTION THEY NEED FROM THEIR VERY-TIRED AND OVERWORKED PARENTS AND LACK OF GOOD NUTRITION AND GUIDANCE (AKA DISCIPLINE). DOCTORS TYPICALLY ARE NOT INTO "WELLNESS" PROGRAMS, BUT INTO DRUGGING EVERYBODY UP! IF YOU HAVE HYPERTENSION FOR INSTANCE, NOT ONE DOCTOR WILL TELL YOU TO CUT BACK ON SODIUM OR HAVE YOU GO GET A LAB TEST TO SEE IF THERE IS SOME NUTRITIONAL PROBLEM OR LIVER OR HEART FAILURE, NOR WILL THEY RECOMMEND SENDING YOU TO A NUTRITIONIS, AN "INTERVENT" WELLNESS PROGRAM, OR AN EXERCISE TRAINER; INSTEAD, THEY "THROW SOME PILLS" AT YOU AND SHOVE YOU OUT THE DOOR.