OT: Do our kiddies get enough drugs?
Serena Nordstrup
in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according
to a study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs.
That means that children will fall behind adults in their drug intakes
-- at an age when (according to some psychiatric experts) minds form
and future neuroses build...
The situation seems particularly worrying for young Australians.
According to http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=prescriptions+australia++2006&a=ListOrTimes_List,
Australia spent only about 6.789 billion US dollars on prescription
drugs in 2006. Compare that with 227.5 billion US dollars in the
United States (see http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=prescriptions+US++2006&a=ListOrTimes_List
)
Australia's children evidently have a way to go to catch up on the
benefits of the latest medical technology.
HAPPYsamurai
> Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children
> in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according
> to a study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs.
> That means that children will fall behind adults in their drug intakes
> -- at an age when (according to some psychiatric experts) minds form
> and future neuroses build...
>
> The situation seems particularly worrying for young Australians.
> Australia spent only about 6.789 billion US dollars on prescription
> drugs in 2006. Compare that with 227.5 billion US dollars in the
> )
>
> Australia's children evidently have a way to go to catch up on the
> benefits of the latest medical technology.
;(
computeruser
I'll don a devil's advocate hat for a moment:
Or is it that Australian Doctors are not being "tools" of the pharmaceutical
industry, to the same degree American doctors are?
I recently watched a classic film called "The Shop Around the Corner".
During one segment an errand boy takes something a Doctor says as an insult.
In retort he says "I didn't call you a Pill Pusher". This phrase or
sentiment may have been common in 1940. This is how I took it.
There seems to be a long standing distrust of pharmaceutical industry.
Those that have put forth fraudulent data and false results have deserved
this distrust. Just as the purveyors of self-help seminars haven't policed
there own, big phrama companies haven't done enough to keep their own house
clean.
HAPPYsamurai
> Serena Nordstrup wrote...
> > Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children
> > in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according
> > to a study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs.
> > That means that children will fall behind adults in their drug intakes
> > -- at an age when (according to some psychiatric experts) minds form
> > and future neuroses build...
>
> > The situation seems particularly worrying for young Australians.
> > According to
> > Australia spent only about 6.789 billion US dollars on prescription
> > drugs in 2006. Compare that with 227.5 billion US dollars in the
> > United States (see
> > )
>
> > Australia's children evidently have a way to go to catch up on the
> > benefits of the latest medical technology.
>
> I'll don a devil's advocate hat for a moment:
> Or is it that Australian Doctors are not being "tools" of the pharmaceutical
> industry, to the same degree American doctors are?
still taking their role seriously
still another generation and that "could" be lost too
>
> I recently watched a classic film called "The Shop Around the Corner".
> During one segment an errand boy takes something a Doctor says as an insult.
> In retort he says "I didn't call you a Pill Pusher". This phrase or
> sentiment may have been common in 1940. This is how I took it.
>
> There seems to be a long standing distrust of pharmaceutical industry.
>
> Those that have put forth fraudulent data and false results have deserved
> this distrust. Just as the purveyors of self-help seminars haven't policed
> there own, big phrama companies haven't done enough to keep their own house
> clean.
it all comes back to milgram and the power of the man in the white
coat
and abdicating responsibility
dr's abdicating to the chemists etc
have wall street and the fed been "responsible" with the social roles
that were entrusted to them? - I assume you {cu} think they are roles
better suited to private business than govt oversight
they wouldn't sell tobacco if it was bad for you etc etc
it seems "stewardship" is dead along with chivalry
still at least US high school winners vs losers culture is alive and
well (thank you tv)
stop whining losers
etc etc
god bless the worship of adolescence values systems
HAPPYsamurai
but wait Bruno - here's a camp where they drug them and then bury them
http://www.youthrights.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7424
we must get ahead....
http://www.momlogic.com/2009/05/drugs_for_competitive_edge_adderall_ritalin.php
http://psychrights.org/articles/070822EPringleKidsDrugged2Death.htm
"FDA records show that, between 1999 and 2003, seventy-eight million
prescriptions were written for ADHD drugs for children ranging in age
from one to 18. A review of adverse events posted on the FDA web site
reveals that, between January 2000 and June 30, 2005, there were
nearly 1,000 reports of psychosis or mania possibly linked to ADHD
drugs, with psychosis characterized by the inability to distinguish
real and imaginary events."
still - how will these businesses pay their bills if they can't sell
chemicals to drug kiddies
give them a "bailout" ?