Comments on: Poor children more likely to be drugged

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Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:40:23 +0000

[...] Children on Medicaid More Likely to Be Drugged Scary statistics and how often and why children from low-income families are likely to be given anti-psychotics and other drugs. [...]

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:51:36 +0000

I dunno. Maybe that generation was just seduced by power, like everyone else.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:26:37 +0000

Rowdy kids used to get spanked and have their asses kicked. It was crude but seemed to work for thousands of years and it was cheap too. Every adult had a boot to swing and switches grew on trees.
Then we had the sixties and learned that violence never solved anything. (Who said that anyway?)

Now we don’t solve our problems with violence, we solve them with drugs.
In the past, ass kickings used to be more common amongst the poor folks, so it stands to reason that poor kids get more drugs today.
Same problem as before, it didn’t go away, we still think it’s just awful how we deal with it, but now big business is making money.

The touchy feely, feel good baby boomer generation was the biggest tool of big business that ever walked the earth. They never even knew it. They thought they were all about stickin’ it to the man. Ha! “The man” has been laughing all the way to the bank for 50 years.

By: Margaret Wilde

Margaret Wilde — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:24:04 +0000

This is shocking. The prescribing medics and the complicit foster parents should be ashamed to be party to such cruelty.

I suspect that a major reason for the high prescribing of these harmful drugs to children is to swell the profits of the drug companies.

I am confident that antipsychotic drugs should NEVER be prescribed to children and only very very rarely to adults if at all.

BTW, if anyone reading this has taken prescription drugs and gained weight because of this, the safe, sure way to reduce the weight gain is to cut down on salt and salty food. This reduces the fluid retention which the drugs often cause.