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- sean151, on 11/07/2008, -1/+38Is it bad that I knew what it meant when I first glanced at it, but still wanted it to mean recreational drugs?
- Someb0dy, on 11/08/2008, -2/+27Legalize Weed!
- naturalpapa, on 11/08/2008, -3/+23I think we need kids to go outside and kick a ball, climb a tree, ride a bike every day, instead of following our couch potato lifestyle : )
- davidbeile, on 11/08/2008, -0/+15I love Robitussin.
- avataros, on 11/08/2008, -0/+15When you have so many drugs on the market, it's hard to not have a problem that can't be solved by one.
- blast_flame, on 11/08/2008, -0/+14Just let kids do what they damn want. All this micromanaging of kids rec time I see now days makes we sick.
- DankNugzPlz, on 11/08/2008, -0/+14I love how everyone will warn of the negative effects of illegal drugs on a child's growth, but no one seems to give a damn about what all the Rx medications are doing to them.
- jguy584, on 11/08/2008, -0/+13I used to work for a restaurant that advertised to drug companies, it seems odd but let me explain.
The pharma company would send a drug rep to a doctors office to get that office to prescribe their drugs. The pharma company would also buy lunch for the whole office (where I come in). An average lunch ran for $400-$700, nothing cheap. The doctors would then agree to prescribe their drug for the given disorder, and put that drug's posters and pamphlets all over the office.
On top of that many doctors also get 'kick-backs' from the drug companies each time they prescribe the drug, usually a few hundred bucks.
It's real disturbing. - inactive, on 11/08/2008, -3/+15"ADHD medication prescriptions"
This is what concerns me. Psychiatrist medicating people who just seem a bit off. Changing and possibly damaging a person to make a buck. These crooks are in the pockets of every pharmaceutical company. They are a menace to all of us. - Trekhawk, on 11/08/2008, -2/+14To an extent, a lot of this can be attributed to lazy, inattentive parents. These parents are enablers. They buy their children crap food. They don't keep their children active. They don't may attention to their children's needs and promote their talents or interests. But don't worry. There's a swallow-able solution to all your kid's problems.
- MSUKate, on 11/08/2008, -0/+11I agree.
I used to work as a substitue teacher and so many of these kids never played outside except recess at school.
I remember my mom sending me out to play, stating "dont come back until...." Usually she had to go find us around dusk.
I agree that the "concern" about child abduction is overblown, mostly by sensationalizing media. - inactive, on 11/08/2008, -2/+12Really? You're going to blame this on Bush?
- Ghoztt, on 11/08/2008, -3/+12D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs.
- antonio97b, on 11/08/2008, -0/+9MO TUSSIN
- Lisainred, on 11/08/2008, -2/+10What sad news. Naturalpapa, I totally agree with you. Video games and a fear of child abduction keep kids inside way too often. In the '70s, when I was young, we were always outside riding bikes and at the playground. It's very sad that some of these kids won't live as long as their parents.
- naturalpapa, on 11/08/2008, -1/+8Kids get more drugs from their doctor than from their dealer. Oh wait, the doctor is the dealer...
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -2/+9Uh huh. I think you proved the title of this article to be true. Did the crap in your food make it taste a little funny or did your tourettes subside long enough for you articulate yourself so brilliantly?
- benitojuarez, on 11/08/2008, -1/+8I was diagnosed with ADHD in the 80s. I can tell you for a fact theres no such thing. I just never had any discipline or consequences when I was younger so I acted a fool. Doctors just toss this ***** out so they can continue to make more money.
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+7More children are fat than ever. Stop buying ***** food for your kids; stop eating ***** food in front of your kids; encourage them to go outdoors once in awhile, neighborhood permitting. This is how you get kids to stop needing prescriptions.
- doublefelix, on 11/08/2008, -0/+6When I was a kid we cured Type 2 diabetes by riding our bikes and eating our vegetables. Asthma, well that kid always was wheezing a bit but he had his inhaler. It only became problematic if he was the last kid left behind when the clown came out at night.
- marmanukem, on 11/08/2008, -0/+6The pharmaceuticals industry has become first and foremost an industry. It doesn't have the well being of people truly at heart anymore, just their wallets.
- doobiebrother, on 11/08/2008, -0/+5We're all somebody's children
- truthteller426, on 11/08/2008, -0/+5Pharmaceuticals are the gateway drug, NOT marijuana!
- pintomp3, on 11/08/2008, -1/+6reagan: mission accomplished!
- sodade, on 11/08/2008, -1/+6ADHD is not a disease.
- jinsundo, on 11/08/2008, -0/+5"More Children on Drugs Than Ever"
The more diseases there are means there will be more symptoms of the disease and the more symptoms there are then the more (costly) drugs there will be to treat the symptoms and the more drugs there are then the more the pharmaceutical industry will grow, who then tell the doctors how to treat the symptoms with more drugs. But never is the disease treated since that would end their lucrative business.which benefits all parties concerned, since they are now able to send their children to fancy schools and buy those expensive fancy dancy cars while somebody else's child gets poisoned and dies from that industry which they all benefit from.
A MUST read is Detoxify Or Die by Sherry A. Rodgers M.D. .
Clean the toxic dump site in our bodies and that will treat the disease. - naturalpapa, on 11/08/2008, -1/+6Damn kids, won't sit still...
Here, take a chill pill. - ogre2112, on 11/08/2008, -0/+5Or they toss it out because parents don't like to live with "fool" kids.
- FishHammer, on 11/08/2008, -0/+5The internet created the whole "I'm not socially retarded I just have Asbergers!" thing, so I pretty much agree.
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4Yes, it is. This is why legitimate hospitals are moving towards banning their physicians from engaging in this sort of thing.
- Cglass, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4Asthma medicine works.
I thank god for it often.
No exercise in the world would do what advair does.
Sorry, unlike many people, I appreciate the work my doctor does =) - giogalindo, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4i read the title the wrong way.
- TheMachine1, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17542236
The is no evidence that diet effects ADHD.
"Dietary treatment of children with behavioral disorders has had wide public appeal and been a source of controversy since the 1920's. Yet, to date, there is little empirical evidence supporting the effectiveness of dietary restrictions in treating child psychiatric disorders, in particular, autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)."
ADHD = inattentive
Do not be shocked a neurological condition can have a genetic basis. So yes you can blame parents but its mostly because of their genes not their parenting skills. - dancantone, on 11/08/2008, -2/+6Big Pharma got ya sick again?
Try WEEDIES!!!
And it's good for ya! ;) - MSUKate, on 11/08/2008, -1/+5Its not exactly a suprise, since they have data that Americans as a whole take more drugs.
More people are taking drugs, and those taking drugs are taking more of them.
Its not necessarily a bad thing, becuase I think if someone, like a kid has asthma they need medicine to control it.
But yeah, a healthier lifestyle would probably make some of the need for drugs a moot point. - Avaseal, on 11/08/2008, -1/+5D.A.R.E. to make the parents grow a set of balls and if the kids come home stoned or drunk, beat them with a wooden spoon or paddle so they smarten up.
- guyincognitoo, on 11/08/2008, -1/+4I think you mean to blame the parents who diagnose their kids through webMD. They think they know more the doctor does and won't leave till they get the drug they KNOW their kids need.
- kahoona1, on 11/08/2008, -2/+5I blame video games.
- SemiSarcastic, on 11/08/2008, -2/+5Not to go Keenian on all you Diggers, but, I blame the internet. The internet, which created today's new apathetic-instant solution parents, who treat everything like there is a simple solution to the problem which is present to them in pill form which in turn is fed to their kids. We may say we like our most basic needs met the old fashion way, but we wouldn't be on the internet if we were truly serious about it. "We can find all kinds of solutions if we look to the internet and technology" *****. Things like exercising and being part of nature are things that are met on an instinct or spiritual level, which goes against everything that's part of the technology utopia everyone is working towards. If you can't incorporate the old with the new, then you deserve neither.
/rant. - OhROFL, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3I'm gonna go do all those things... as soon as I get off Digg...
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3They're just as bad as people who trust the doctor blindly. Doctors who after talking to you 40 minutes think they have you all figured out.
- Brododium, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3So what's the logical next step?
Start creating more diseases and disorders! - inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Someone who's trusted therapists and gotten screwed over. Many times.
- flashback99, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3drugs are drugs. Some are fun, some prevent you from dying, some do both...
- Naieve, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3FLMarijuana,
I was one of those kids prescriped Ritalin when I was like 10 years old.
So seriously, shut up, you have no idea what you are talking about.
I'm sure the ADD/ADHD meds have come a long way, but giving children what is basically speed when they are children is ***** ridiculous. I know exactly where my addictions started, and it wasn't a drug dealer, it was a Doctor.
The place I went was handing that ***** out like candy, if you didn't pass the test and need the drugs, they would show you how to pass it so they could prescribe it anyways. The kickbacks from the Pharms was that good.
guy, I agree that parents should be more involved, especially when having your child prescribed highly addictive substances, yet this was back before the internet was popular, before we even had a computer. My mom was the run to the doctor for every sniffle type, so when they said here, pop some ***** amphetamines, she said okay. - Naglifar, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3America needs to lay off on all the Rx drugs and abundance of caffeine, instead we should spread a little green.
- Naieve, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Everything is officially Bush's fault for the next 8 years.
Once Obama is out of office then we find a new scapegoat, maybe Obama. - alexisricci, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3What saddens me, other than the increase of legal childhood prescriptions, is the fact that these children are labeled and given NO EXIT STRATEGIES for the drugs. Wait, neither are most adults! We would do good to look at food choices, environments (internet inc.), family structures and media....
Alexis
http://www.myzealforlife.com - marioara, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3well we are a doomed generation half of my class has or had some serious health problems. I have asthma and I'm sure pollution has to do something with that. I simply suffocate when I get out and yes, I get a lot of pills
- TekTrixter, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3That would be funny if it wasn't true...
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