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Originally Posted by Rich
I respect your opinion, but I disagree. I'm not talking about drugs like pot or cocaine, I'm talking about drugs that parents force-feed kids, anti-depressants and ADD drugs like Ritalin. Those are what fuck up the developing brain. I don't think kids just kill their parents or other kids because they have a shitty life, I just don't believe that. I don't think it's a coincidence that ever since they started handing out mind altering drugs to kids like candy, they've started shooting each other in record numbers. I also don't think it's a coincidence that every school shooter has been on these drugs. Every single one. Not to mention, kids on these drugs kill their parents a lot more than you hear about. It happened last summer up here where I live, some 10 year old off'd his grandmother who was his caregiver, the one feeding him the drugs. They usually take out the person giving them the dope. Like that kid down south a couple years ago who killed both his parents at home before going to school and taking out about 7 people.
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I totally agree with your views on drugs. I was close to be a Ritalin kid myself, had my mother taken the easy route and instead, thankfully, changed my diet and adding extra activities for me to participate in - which kept my busy mind working on positive things.
However, from the UK story, which I was referring, about the two kids growing up in alcoholic & abusive families, I was just thinking it didn't sound like the type of family lifestyle to get prescription drugs for their children. I could be wrong. I do think any child brought up poorly, though, could commit serious acts of violence and abuse without having tasted any drug regardless if it's pharmaceutically created or not.
Again, I lay blame to people for creating bad people - if it's the middle-class, "normal" parents who don't spend time with their overactive child and feeds him / her drugs to the broken, alcoholic and abusive family beating / molesting their children without foreign pharmaceuticals.
We may disagree on how "some" kids end up being messed up, and that's fine. It's still a tragety it happens.
