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That was my thought exactly. Why get them started believing that there is a Pill for every Ill? This is the same mentality that sends swarms of Grief Counselors to school when a classmate is killed, teaching kids that (1) the government will always be there to make it all better; and (2) the way to make it all better is to scream, cry, and wallow.

I may be rather biased. I am a family doctor's son and an herbalist myself. I picked up from him the view that medicine is serious business and neither he nor I take or recommend taking anything unless absolutely necessary. In his case that is past tense since he has been gone since '86. I also have a lot of experience from my wasted youth with using drugs for fun. It's great fun until someone crashes and burns.

But the point is I don't think it's a good thing to encourage the idea that pills are a fix for every problem. That was my view as a kid in the '70s in spite of my father's conservative medical practices. It was the prevailing popular view in the '70s and I think it's even worse now especially in medicine. As an adult I know many more people who have had their minds and bodies trashed by doctors than by drug dealers. Particulary with psychotropic drug scrips which are all about "feel good" in a pill.