Are Our Kids Pacified Enough?

 

1. “Try Ritalin—it’s so much easier than parenting!”
   True, BUT when the choice is between institutionalization and medication ....

   There are damaged kids whose lives are vastly improved by modern, non-sedating psychotropic drugs. 
   And—there are financial and other incentives to overdo it.

   Posted by Oink       03/17/2006  at  01:32 PM  



2. OCM: I think we agree that antibiotics is about the only group of ‘drugs’ that the government has a justifiable motive to restrict adults from having free access to?

   Posted by Oink       03/17/2006  at  02:20 PM  



3. Never mind the the side effects.  That’s just legal mumbo jumbo, they have to put on the label.  Take 60mg with every meal, if that dosen’t help we’ll up the dosage.

   http://www.panexa.com/

   Posted by lumberguy       03/17/2006  at  03:03 PM  



4. OCM: My belief is that adults have the right to screw themselves up. The do not have the right to teach The Bugs to be resistant to all antibiotics and then turn them loose on me.

   Posted by Oink       03/17/2006  at  03:25 PM  



5. oink is wrong again, figures.  I want to put Viagra on the list that should not be free to everyone and paid by taxpayers.  That’s the last thing we need oink is for rich golf playing couples in Tampa Bay getting free Viagra sex drugs, get real.

   Isn’t the suicide rate higher with these MindBender drugs

   Posted by Z Woof       03/17/2006  at  04:58 PM  



6. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
   Some minds are just terrible things.

   Taxpayer paid???? Huh???? No, really—HUH??

   People taking anti-depressants have a higher rate of suicide.
   People using parachutes have a higher rate of dying by falling from airplanes.

   Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-That’s all, folks!

   Posted by Oink       03/17/2006  at  05:26 PM  



7. Kurt cobain, RIP,

   Posted by bulldog       03/17/2006  at  05:54 PM  



8. ANOTHER INSTALLMENT IN OINK’S CONTINUING EFFORT TO CEMENT BMEWS’ LOWBROW STATUS

   “Kurt Cobain” by Pinkard & Bowden: [to the tune of “You’re So Vain” if you haven’t guessed]

   You walked into your bedroom, like you were walking into a fog
   Your hand strategically wrapped around your gun, you were emotionally sick as a dog
   You had one thumb on the trigger as you gazed into the bore
   Now all the band knows that they’ll need a partner, they’ll need a partner, and

   Kurt Cobain, they’ll probably do the next one without you
   Kurt Cobain (Co-bain), I’ll bet they do the next one without you

   Posted by Oink       03/17/2006  at  06:27 PM  



9. Yes, they are over-used. But, sometimes they are the correct intervention. My daughter was helped greatly.

   The Hobo

   Posted by Robohobo       03/17/2006  at  06:30 PM  



10. Hobo: Dead on!  Abusus non tollit usum: Wrong use does not preclude proper use.

    Posted by Oink       03/17/2006  at  06:32 PM  



11. The BOY is on a cousin of ratalin-adderal-and it’s helped a lot. I was on concerta for a while a few years back(I’m also ADHD. I was diagnosed in my early thirties)
    When Al’s “psych” started raising the dose to levels that made him act out of character-my ex and I raised hell. She lowered it back.
    Btw-the downside to all of this is that if Al’s going through a defiant day-well his excuse is “I guess I forgot to take my pill"(He takes them on week days when he’s at his dad’s)
    That excuse is no longer a valid one in this family.

    Posted by Annoying Little Twerp       03/17/2006  at  09:57 PM  



12. Most of the aleged mis-application I’ve heard discussed involves boys.
    So I wonder:

    Do our mostly liberal, mostly female educrats want boys to behave like sweet little girls?

    Do boys get outside and play enough to run off some energy?  I hardly ever see the boys in my neighborhood outside playing catch, riding bikes, chasing each other, wrestling and rough-housing with one another.  When I do see them, they’re standing around on the street corner with their hands in their pockets looking bored.

    Do boys (and girls) get too much sugar, giving them them hyper episodes?  A few years ago, all the local schools had cola vending machines.  I don’t know if they still do.  I see way too many chubby kids around the neighborhood and the malls.

    Posted by dick       03/18/2006  at  01:31 AM  



13. dick: Thou sayeth a mouthful.  Despite the talk of women being exploited (some of which is true) our schools have conducted a war on masculinity, where a major diagnosis is “being a boy”. One of the signs of that illness is not liking to sit still with your hands folded.

    Posted by Oink       03/18/2006  at  08:49 AM  



14. i think kurt was hypa as a kid, just give him a pill to slow him down, this was wrong, led him to belive that drugs would solve everything, wrote some fucking good songs though, sir paul mccarthy , even said so.

    Posted by bulldog       03/18/2006  at  09:18 AM  



15. Sid and Kurt were stark examples of self-medication.

    Terrific scene in the movie “Sid & Nancy” when he tells her that every thing will be OK when we get to New York. She points out that they’ve been in NY for several days now…

    Posted by Oink       03/18/2006  at  09:28 AM  



16. sid aint in the same leage as kurt, sid was weak and easy led, he could not play bass to save his life, glen matlock, go check him out, the sacked bassplayer, kurts was a totaly diferent case, like i said maybe the drug thing as a kid had something to do with it,mind you sids mum was a hippy, prob full of drugs before he was born, i dont think its as cut and dry as you would like it to be, life that is oink, not the stuff iam about to sniff.

    Posted by bulldog       03/18/2006  at  09:50 AM  



17. dick, it’s because boys argue, that’s reason enough to medicate. 

    My 7 year old nephew and my brother fought off the “teachers” last year when they insisted that Nick needed medication.  Nick told his teacher when she [[[punished]]] the whole class because just [one] student was bad, “I know what is right, and I didn’t do anything wrong.  I want to go outside and play during recess.”

    Come here little puppy, you are tooo active.  Let’s medicate you to become lathargic.

    Pass me the dog food. 

    Posted by Z Woof       03/19/2006  at  07:24 AM  



18. ...of course, everything should be good and easy, no rough spots, no conflict.  Lots of good meds to help it out and make everyone compliant.  Why be worried, why not be dull and satisfied? 

    Ultimately, misdiagnosis and misapplication of these drugs is the true danger.  There are right and proper times for psych meds, but prescribing potent psych meds to achieve a chemical straight jacketing of normal people is a much different problem.  As a society, we don’t want conflict, yet conflict is also essential for growth.  Our schools and child welfare systems in particular seem to have a greater interest in medicating kids than in dealing with the natural conflicts that accompany the growth of the children.  Many books have been written about dystopias that all involve the use of psych meds to maintain a tame populace - is anyone listening?

    Posted by Dr. Jeff       03/19/2006  at  03:03 PM  



19. I’m listening Dr. Jeff. 

    Posted by Z Woof       03/19/2006  at  08:57 PM  

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