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To: garandgal

Anti-biotics were becoming a big problems. They were building better germs through over-prescription. Mis-use of
drugs were responsible for building the super strains of TB.

A lot of kids truly in need have been helped by ritalin, but it's hugely over-prescribed. The prescriptions for ritalin is in the millions. If a kid is unruly, they jam a pill down their throat. Now, they've started giving kids Prozac.

Maybe it's different in other parts of the country, but in NYC there are giant numbers of people medicated through prescription drugs for vague anxiety, depression etc. Added to that the folks who self-medicate with pot and alcohol on a regular basis.


18 posted on 01/05/2006 12:33:02 AM PST by durasell (!)
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To: durasell
A lot of kids truly in need have been helped by ritalin, but it's hugely over-prescribed. The prescriptions for ritalin is in the millions. If a kid is unruly, they jam a pill down their throat. Now, they've started giving kids Prozac.

I know...I hope you know I was kidding! It's absolutely hideous, what they are doing.

They report with glee that they have dramatically lowered antibiotic prescriptions, and if my experience is any indication...many of the denied patients actually need antibiotics.

Meanwhile, they are ramping up the psychotropic drugs.

If anyone needs mental evaluation, it is the medical establishment that is fostering this travesty.

20 posted on 01/05/2006 12:47:05 AM PST by garandgal
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