Originally Posted by psili

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.