Kids And Drugs

A few days ago I wrote a <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000403.html">little</a> about how I thought kids in the US are overly medicated. It seems Like I am not the only one who feels this way.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/06/04/notes060404.DTL">Drug Up Your Teen Today! </a><br />n<!–more–><br />nSome of the more interesting excerpts:<br />n<br />n<i>Just look at them, the well-drugged teens of America, all calm and happily narcotized, walking around with their eyes glazed over and their shirts untucked and their souls drained of all vital juices. God bless America at its world-record 25 percent mood-disorder rate! The most-drugged nation on the planet! We're No. 1! So proud.<br />n<br />nGuess I'm just getting a bit angry. Maybe a little frustrated at the rampant wholesale corporate-sponsored government-enhanced parentally condoned drugging of kids in this country, and what that means for our future, and theirs, and the future of their attitudes and perspectives and the deterioration of their brains, penises, souls, karmas, love lives, vibration, evolutionary status.<br />n<br />nMaybe I'm just getting a little too goddamn depressed by it all. Maybe I just need a pill. And a drink. Ahhh, there now. Much better. Thank you, Eli Lilly. We're No. 1! </i><br />n<br />nOur society is turning into a place where pills are popped to make you happy instead of facing life full in the face and dealing with your problems and living a happy life. How Sad.<br />n<br />n<b>The worst drugs are as bad as anybody&acirc;