Originally posted by great pyr-hauler:
This guy wasn't a kid but my wife is a jr. high/middle school teacher and I'm always shocked when she tells me the number of kids in school who take some type of mood altering medication. It's seems like 1/4 of the kids now days are on prozac or some mood altering drug. When I was in school there may have been 1 in a class or something that had issues like that.
Maybe we are becoming a little over medicated?
There is no doubt that society is being over medicated.
With kids the big drug they put them on is Ritalin. Especially boys.
My sister in law is a psychologist in the NYC Public School system. You would be shocked at the number of kids being drugged.
Unfortunately it's the school administration system themselves that seems very open and willing toward this trend. Since children receive little discipline in the home these days, there has been a trend to diagnose them with ADHD. Then they can be drugged.
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