Personally, I believe that the current generation growing up is fucked. How many kids are on some sort of drug for something? ADD, depression and whatever else. It's ot of hand. It seems, for anything wrong the answer is to go see the doctor and get them to prescribe something. Whose to blame? Parents? Yes. Drug companies? Absolutley.
[quote:93dba]In 2003, approximately one in eight children had a condition for which they regularly took prescription medication.[/quote:93dba]
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5417a5.htm
[quote:93dba]Spending on prescription drugs for infants, children, adolescents and young adults has increased by 85 percent during the last five years, said Medco, which manages prescription drug plans covering 65 million people and operates a mail order pharmacy.
According to the 2002 Medco Drug Trend study, which reviewed the prescription drug use of half a million people under age 19, younger patients are taking 34 percent more medications than they were five years ago, based on days of therapy. [/quote:93dba]
http://www.rense.com/general29/kids.htm
Fucking disgusting.
07-20-2005, 06:27 PM
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