My beautiful bride came across this article. I like this guy, especially the phrase “cultural warrior”. Destroying our culture by drugging our kids was a master plan implemented by our liberal psychotic “leaders” and it’s working. I see more glassy-eyed kids in my class than you ever used to. It’s to the point where our school district gets paid for every flu shot they administer. Sounds just a bit fishy to me. Oh, I forgot, its “for the children”.
A Drugged Nation Is Not Healthy
Domenick J. Maglio, Ph.D. Cultural Warrior
Most Americans are too busy in their daily lives to face the obvious: we are a society dependent on drugs. We fought only half the war on drugs. “Just Say No” should have targeted not only street drugs but all detrimental drugs including prescription ones.
There is little ethical or moral difference between a drug pusher in the school yard seducing kids into buying the latest feel good drug and the pharmacological/medical industry dispensing antipsychotic medication to children as young as toddlers. Both the street drug or the prescription drug will lead the child down the same path of chemical dependency that ends in being a taker from rather than a giver to society.
According to the national Teen Drug Survey released December 11, 2007 by the White House, teenagers are turning from street drugs to prescription drugs such as OxyCondin and Vicodin. The study conducted by the University of Michigan Institute on Social Research, found a modest decrease in marijuana and other street drugs and an increase in prescription drugs. John Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said, “71% of young people have reported their source of supply is their parent’s or friend’s medicine cabinet.” Theo Milonopoulos, “Survey Finds Teens Smoking Less Pot, But Popping More Pills,” Tampa Tribune, December 12, 2007, pg. 13.
It is a deplorable commentary on our nation that the Center of Medicare and Medicaid says 21% of nursing home patients, who do not have a psychosis diagnosis are prescribed antipsychotic, off label, medication. Lucette Lagnado, “Nursing Homes Quiet Elderly with Antipsychotic Drugs,” Tampa Tribune, December 7, 2007. To give humans of any age medication to induce docility is inhumane. When children are given off label psychotic medication it is more tragic as their lives are ahead rather than behind them.
Although children naturally fluctuate in their mood from laughing to crying, they are being prescribed off-label antipsychotic medication as toddlers. Before the 1990s it was generally accepted in the mental health profession to be illogical and unethical to label a child with a bi-polar disorder. Certainly drugging a child with an antipsychotic medication was considered going against the Hippocratic principle of doing no harm. Assisting nursing homes to control the elderly and parents to control their children is not any better than caging the elderly and children for control.
Our society has become more than drug tolerant, we have become a drugged society. Drug advertisements dominate women’s magazines and television commercials. You have to wait an hour just to have a prescription filled. Recreational drugs of Hollywood celebrities to “roids” of sports idols, to sexual stimulants for anyone, psychotic drugs for the elderly and for children to control behavior indicate drugs have permeated every segment of our society. Using chemicals for daily life is epidemic.
Drugs may temporarily relieve a particular problem. The side effects to a person taking the drugs may be denied but are evident to those around us. The number of people unable to exist without mind-altering medication is destroying our power to be a vital, independent people. A large number of people dependent on drugs eventually become dependent on the government “safety net.” This leads to a sick and declining society. We must reject the celebrity’s lifestyle, advertising and the pharmaceutical/medical experts or sacrifice our own and our children’s bodies, minds and spirits to the long-term adverse impact of drugs.
The joys of life are best experienced in a conscious state. Life’s ups and downs can be painful at times although they always provide us an opportunity to learn how to better handle the next challenge of life. Problems never cease, healthy people just get better at solving them.
Americans have established a reputation as an ingenious people who can overcome life’s obstacles. We cannot surrender our character as a people who perseveres until we get the job done. If we as a society continue down the drugged path when the going gets tough, we will forget the advantages, assets and wisdom left to us by our ancestors.
Restoring our national vigor requires the discipline to say “no” to any unnecessary drugs.
Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting. He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School.
http://www.drmaglio.com/articles/culturewar/drugged_nation.php
Pirate Jo says:
I guess whether you are a belligerent old crank in a nursing home or a belligerent little snot in elementary school, people will drug you if you are hard enough to put up with.
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28th January 2013 at 1:08 pm
card802 says:
Dr Russell Blaylock believes the chemicals in vaccinations are dumbing down the population.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElrXrE8AmIc
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28th January 2013 at 1:17 pm
AWD says:
8.7% of our population uses illegal drugs (28,700,000 PEOPLE).
The number of people on pharmaceuticals is probably 3x that number.
Kids don’t walk into doctor’s offices wanting pills, their parents and teachers want them on pills so they are complacent, and the lazy parents don’t have to discipline their kids. Kids aren’t allowed to be sad, moody, or despondent. No, they’d better take a pill to get rid of normal human emotions and reactions. The parents are on drugs, why shouldn’t the kids be? No parent wants a buzzkill child while they are high on percocets, xanax and weed.
There is a moral, ethical and spiritual void is country. People try to fill the void with shopping, eating, money, pills, drugs, booze, gambling and watching T.V. and staring at their icrap. Until that void is addressed, this problem will only get worse.
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28th January 2013 at 1:38 pm
Wyoming Mike says:
There’s a woman in my office in her early 50′s who’s been on at least 3 prescriptions for years. For the life of her, she can’t figure out why she’s sick all the time.
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28th January 2013 at 2:14 pm
JIMSKI says:
As an addicted person I really have a bit of sympathy for those hooked. It is fine and dandy to talk about will power and just say no but in real life it is much harder. Kids who get hooked early on dope have a long road to travel to get healed. I know I have been unable to stop my own addictive personality from destructive ends.
Dope you ask? Nope Stopped smoking it when high school ended. Narcotics? Wrong again and believe me with my back I could easily get script after script. Booze? Nope as I go weeks without a drink and prefer beer.
Mine is more a sausage biscuits and gravy addiction. Food in all it’s forms. Baked, fried, stewed, grilled, I love them all. My drug of choice is food. Still an addiction and still going to kill me.
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28th January 2013 at 2:35 pm
AWD says:
My drug of choice is food. Still an addiction and still going to kill me
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28th January 2013 at 2:40 pm
Eddie says:
Biscuits and gravy, the redneck staff of life. Mmmm.
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28th January 2013 at 2:43 pm
ecliptix543 says:
Damn AWD – A few percocets, a Xanax, and a spliff is pretty much a waking coma. Been there, done that. Not going back, either. No one should ever get to feel that good unless they’re moments from death anyway. At that point, fuck it.
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28th January 2013 at 4:46 pm
Muck About says:
Oh crap… Self-education is the key. Plus balls like ecliptix used to shake the tough stuff.
Me? If it works use it and “better living through chemistry” when well informed and researched is a fine way to go!
Viva Viagra!
MA
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28th January 2013 at 5:11 pm
SSS says:
Don’t disagree with anything said by the author of the article, BUT it was only observations. No solutions offered. None.
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28th January 2013 at 5:52 pm
Wyoming Mike says:
SSS, I agree, but most people aren’t there yet. We cleaned up our own family.
BTW, saw a commercial last night for Theraflu. The side effects are nausea & vomiting. Priceless!
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28th January 2013 at 6:12 pm
M. Oleman says:
Neither I nor any members of my immediate family are on any prescription medications and I’m in my fifties. Educating yourself early is the key. Just say no to the pharmaceutical industry and the government drug pushers.
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28th January 2013 at 6:56 pm
KaD says:
I take a natural multivitamin, a mineral, and Vitamin D. Haven’t been sick for a long time.
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28th January 2013 at 9:08 pm
ecliptix543 says:
Wyoming Mike – My serious opinion on the subject of side effects is that the drug companies pick combinations of chemicals designed to produce horrific effects, with a 10:1 ratio of bad effects to good ones. Then as long as they can tweak the test data to show about 20% of test subjects improved with fewer than 10% deaths, the FDA clears it for anyone that graduated from the NICU ward.
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28th January 2013 at 9:12 pm
anotherjuan says:
Eddie, at my new school in 5th grade, the white teacher asks us to write down what constitutes a proper breakfast or what i had for breakfast. i wrote, oatmeal somedays, beans and rice other days. i got a big fat F. the correct answer was, bacon and eggs with toast.
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28th January 2013 at 9:41 pm
Eddie says:
My years in San Antonio and Carrizo Springs didn’t leave me unchanged. Now breakfast for me is quite likely to involve tacos and beans and rice. All my kids learned to eat beans and rice as their first “real” food.
But I still love sausage gravy, which my Dad was known to refer to affectionally as “log-hauler’s syrup”.
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28th January 2013 at 10:13 pm
anotherjuan says:
Eddie, thanks for remembering san antonio to me. how can i forget lackland, my alma mater. but this was a post on drugs. i see a lot of young folks have discovered alcohol as a drug of choice, as well as caffeine. and medical marijuana. and someone is consuming all that coke coming in through san antonio and phoenix…our society is definitely drug tolerant, it takes so much more to get high than it did 30 years ago.
i was quite involved with a holy roller church a few years ago, got into the business of casting out demons for a while. i stopped talking to people about that because it spooked them. nevertheless, drugs and demonic possession go hand in hand. one poor soul was reported to have run into a police station naked. he had cut his anus severely in an attempt to get rid of some demons in his body. in another instance, a drugged woman complained that demons were having a party in her body. indeed.
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28th January 2013 at 12:05 am
Makati1 says:
As a person who used prescription drugs for a touch of pneumonia (antibiotics) last year and no other ones for most of my life, I am pretty healthy. Other than over the counter cold meds or allergy meds, when necessary, I take an 80mg aspirin tablet and a vitamin/mineral tablet daily. Nothing else. I’m 68. BMI of 24, and normal BP, etc. I eat what I want, when I want it, but nothing in excess.
I read that Americans consume 40% of the world’s prescription drugs and we are 5% of it’s population.
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28th January 2013 at 12:54 am
Eddie says:
another juan
I have no experience with demons,but I know enough to know that there are many spiritual teachers who do believe that they exist. Or maybe the torture a bad addict goes through is just another name for the same thing…don’t know. To me there is a difference between copping a buzz and being badly strung out on something like crack or meth. I have seen many people in my work who carry some kind of monkey on their back…it changes people, makes them into something were not in the beginning, I do believe that.
Where I went to school, they called it the Lackland of the North, because so many Colonels went there to teach when they retired from their 1st career.
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28th January 2013 at 5:09 pm
juan chen says:
all this demons stuff got out of hand during the dark ages. then rene came along and changed things so that learning began anew with the scientific method; if you can’t prove it, it isn’t real. i get all that.
but science isn’t a religion, it is a check on superstition. it is an effort to simplify, otherwise faith becomes a religious quandry, a mishmash of competing beliefs. the scientific revolution seems to have thrown out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak, it could never get rid of God.
but to repeat, there is a strong connection between demons and drugs. are they intelligent beings or mindless things like viruses? i don’t know
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28th January 2013 at 12:39 am