Oh, I agree w/ that too. If the person taking the medication understands what it is, the potential risks and side effects and they've decided it's worth it, that's great. The trouble comes in when doctors hand the stuff out like candy and people don't even suspect a problem or attribute it to the drugs when it occures. Worse? They go to the shrink, report on what's happening and even the shrinks don't suspect the drugs because FDA clearly states that they're non-addictive (till the Paxil class action) w/ few side effects (till the recent FDA scandal started to break) and very effective for almost everybody.
I think people need to start treating their doctors a little more like they do other contractors. If you get a slack worker who doesn't fix what you hired him to fix and who acts like you're a pain the the ass when you ask about what they're doing, do you just suck it up and keep writing checks? Or do you find another contractor? I find another contractor.
I've seen what sure looks like the long term effects of wreckless psyche practice. A few of my kids' friends were "diagnosed" hyperactive (more likely just very bright, energetic kids) and put on huge doses of amphetamines in elementary school. Now they're calling them 'borderline personality disorder' or 'oppositional difiant disorder'. But it sure does look like mild amphetamine psychosis to me.
And it's not like the kids are asking for the stuff. DFAF put out a dire warning campaign a few years ago about the danger of kids smart enough to trade the speed they didn't want for $5 they could use in the locker room and instructing parents, students and faculty to run to the phone and snitch if they merely suspected such 'criminal' activity. :roll:
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