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Kids on Drugs
In the U.S., 7% of all six- to eleven-year-olds now take drugs to "manage their hyperactivity." According to a recent article in the "Economist" the "trend towards making the normal treatable is research into 'mild cognitive impairment', the kind of slight deterioration in memory that goes with getting old." It goes on to say, "The really uncomfortable questions raised by brain science are those that go to the heart of what it is to be human. . . . that the act of giving a normal, healthy child Ritalin, a drug used to treat so-called hyperactivity, is really 'a substantive moral choice', because it tells that child that he needs to change to be acceptable." I'd be willing to bet that the majority of parents who are dosing their children with mind-altering substances are also preaching "Just Say No." If they were honest, these parents would say, "just say no to drugs that the U.S. drug companies can't make exorbitant profits on." (see "The Future of Mind Control" in "The Economist" May 25th-31st, 2002)

posted by LoZo 12:04 PM