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Thursday, February 23, 2006
Essay: Our Overmedicated Society by Jack Lessenberry
Jack Lessenberry writes: For years, our government has been trying to frighten us with the thought of terrorists under our bed. Well, here is something that frightens me much more. The thought of little kids huddling behind the elementary school, taking hits off asthma inhalers and trading pain medications they have secretly brought from home.
What is this all about? And when did it become accepted wisdom that in order to make it through elementary school, kids have to be on Prozac or Ritalin or Zoloft? Newsweek a few years ago said that something like eleven million children were on some kind of mood-altering medication. Now there is new evidence that even the kids who aren't on medication are taking other people's drugs. Also listen to Interview: Carol Boyd. |
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