Momma, dont let your kids grow up to be pot smokers

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Uncle Sparky
I was going to post something but i forgot what i was going to post so i'm just going to finish eating this bag of doritos instead...

Dude, look at your hand! Wait, that's my hand! Whoa.

[Sikander]

I was borderline hyperactive / violent as a child. Gym classes and recess saved my life.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Donegeal


Ok, I'll bite.

Its worse because a doctor is educated and trained in the effects of drugs, both long and short term, whereas this mother is not. She does not have the proper training (most likely she doesn't have ANY training) to be perscribing (and administering) durgs to an infant.

doctors... drug pushers for the pharmaceutical companies

actually, I can't really blame doctors... it's the system based on profit and sales that should be to blame. How the hell can a doctor even come close to doing a good job when patients are rushed in and out like an assembly line. How is a doctor supposed to do a good job when he/she spends like 15 minutes (if that) with a patient... and when dozens of patients are seen on any given day. And their entire livelihoods are based upon how much vicodin or viagra or crestor or ritalin they can dish out.

As for the topic? MJ to an infant? plain stupidity... more reason why you should need a license to have a kid. I mean, in this country we put people through a ruthless screening process if they want to adopt... but yet, it's okay if some 15 year old crack whore has five kids by five different fathers just so she can collect more welfare to spend on drugs.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Sava
doctors... drug pushers for the pharmaceutical companies

actually, I can't really blame doctors... it's the system based on profit and sales that should be to blame. How the hell can a doctor even come close to doing a good job when patients are rushed in and out like an assembly line. How is a doctor supposed to do a good job when he/she spends like 15 minutes (if that) with a patient... and when dozens of patients are seen on any given day. And their entire livelihoods are based upon how much vicodin or viagra or crestor or ritalin they can dish out.

Doctors don't tend to profit much from prescribing drugs, they profit from the visit where the patient, spurred by endless advertisments, demands that the doctor give them a prescription. Think about it. They write you a paper and then you go somewhere else and buy the drug.

[Dis]

I've heard doctors receive money and medical equipment from drug companies.

[Az]

medical equipment? and does what exactly? hoard it at his home?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Dis
I've heard doctors receive money and medical equipment from drug companies.

They mainly get free sample drugs, pens, t-shirts etc. There is some payola, but it's considered unethical even where it is legal.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
As far as I can tell back in the good old days, before the discovery that certain drugs could help hyperactive kids, children who wouldn't sit still and learn in class were either subjected to sufficient quantities of corporal punishment to make them comply with classroom rules or failing that were labelled as mentally retarded and sent home permanently. Deprived of education and socil contacts with other kids they fell further behind in development until the label placed upon them became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Anyone care to go back to the good old days?

Then there kids like me who were completely off the scale at the other end of the spectrum i.e. impulsive, uncontrollable but also bright and bored.

I don't agree with medicating kids to bring them back to a behavioural mean.

The only caveat for me is I'm not sure why behavioural problems seem to be so prevalent today - is it bad parenting or environmental factors like pollution or the result of drug taking or chemical influences on the parents transmitted through the genes?

Or is it all just a media beat up and there is nothing new? I really don't know and that's why I'm suspicious of giving kids drugs.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Az
medical equipment? and does what exactly? hoard it at his home?

use it in their practice of course. So they don't have to buy it. Esp. in the case of new equipment that makes old equipment obsolete.