I Was All Messed Up On Drugs

[handy]

"I WAS ALL MESSED UP ON DRUGS...

"I WAS ALL MESSED UP ON DRUGS

Then, I found Christ! Now, I'm all messed up on Christ! But, it's OK. I'm taking drugs for it."

The LA Times one March 1998 Sunday featured a lovely multi-page article about drugging kids into frank insensibility for school and foster parent convenience. The State fully reimburses at full name brand price - no low-cost generic substitutes here! The SOP drug smorgasbord reads like the morning menu at a Bellevue psychotics ward crossed with recreational pharmaceutical consumption at Willy Nelson concerts:

Ritalin - (methylphenidate) The grand old dame of Attention Deficit Disorder counseling. It gives kids a notable rush, causes juvenile mouths to rot, and exhibits a curious constellation of charred brain side effects with chronic administration.

Aderall - (methamphetamine) Rot your body, rot your mind, cucaracha! What began as prescription speed for dieting middle-aged housewives (with obvious side effects) blossomed into medicine for kids (with obvious side effects). "The ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all," but the school nurse is quite the pusher!

Melleril - (thioridazine, dopamine antagonist) Can you say "major anti-psychotic?" I knew you could! A hefty bucket of ice water for the violently fevered brain works wonders on eight-year olds, especially boys. Thorazine is its brother.

Catapres - (clonidine, alpha-adrenergic agonist) Do kids need anti-hypertensives? Sure! Watch them sit quietly during recess, or black out. Catapres treats severe tobacco, opiate, cocaine, and alcohol addictions. Remarkably, it is also used in shaving soaps and kids.

Paxil - (paroxetine, serotonin uptake inhibitor) This is the next great step beyond tricyclic antidepressants, cousin to Prozac (fluoxetine). Prozac is for adults! (and everything else, including pets.) Whether Paxil suppresses libido and sexual response like Prozac is unstated. Paxil is viciously addictive.

Zoloft - (sertraline, serotonin uptake inhibitor) If mandates of classroom diversity, lifestyle tolerance, and American zero- goal education (aliens, queers, diversity and other Official stupidities) have your kid a little down, do not let him smoke dope or drink booze. Do not put him in a private school. Administer a polychlorinated organic with splendid blood-brain-barrier penetration.

Tegretol - (carbamazepine, anti-epileptic) The tail on a typical tricyclic antidepressant molecule is modified to elicit mild analgesia and potent anticonvulsive activity. It also turns thought to mush, and that has its uses. Think of it as a preemptive attack in the National War on Potential Epilepsy.

Depakote - (valproic acid, anti-epileptic) Discovered by accident when it was used as an inert carrier in epilepsy research, valproic acid is also a teratogen. Caution your 12-year old daughter not to get pregnant when fearlessly flying on Depakote.

Desyrel - (trazodone, serotonin reuptake antagonist) This is an odd-looking molecule for an antidepressant, and rather toxic. One suspects drug companies are moving inventory into children because of untoward side effects in adults - priapism in males (Chemical & Engineering News 76(26) 29 (1998)). Little boys with intractable erections are so cute!

Risperdal - (resperidone, serotonin and dopamine antagonist) We end with another anti-psychotic medication, toxic and somewhat obscure, unless you squirm in your seat in class during Daddy Has a Roommate time. Nobody is hyperactive after Risperdal.

The USSR did the same thing to a lesser degree - to their political prisoners in "psychiatric" hospitals. I maintain there is something obscenely wrong with 8-year olds manifesting tardive dyskinesia as a therapeutic offset. Millions upon millions of kids are taking their meds as their brains grow to maturity bathed in chemical Hell. Worry about that, sucker.

Drugging adults into a vegetative state, shaking and drooling, is much kinder than frying brains with electroconvulsive therapy (Stanley Milgram, white lab coats, and his Dyson pain machine) or physically - therapeutically! - severing "fibers" in brains during lobotomies. Psychopharmaceuticals penetrate the blood-brain-barrier by being intensely lipophilic. Sudden cessation of dosing can be fatal. Their metabolites can require months or even years to wash out of the brain and body fat. So?

Drugging children into a vegetative state, shaking and drooling, has an added attraction. The adult brain is fully grown and connected. The only modifications ongoing sum to a few percent reconnections at most as environment impinges upon internal homeostatsis. A child's brain is both growing in mass and massively establishing its connection foundations, its wetware. Psychopharmaceutical intervention in children chisels an entirely different person - a drug-dependent one.

Drug trafficking, profitable via foreign monopolies and supply constrictions imposed by the War on Drugs, overshadows the pecuniary rush of American food production. Ethical drug firms are hard put to find new profits in treating bunions. Watersheds like Viagra or FDA deregulation of stomach acid secretion inhibitors are few and far between. America needs a populace bred to take a broad variety of "good" prescription drugs, and every day, or else.

No problem. The first duty of a counselor is to creat dependence. THERAPIST THE|RAPIST


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"I WAS ALL MESSED UP ON DRUGS...

"I WAS ALL MESSED UP ON DRUGS

Then, I found Christ! Now, I'm all messed up on Christ! But, it's OK. I'm taking drugs for it."

The LA Times one March 1998 Sunday featured a lovely multi-page article about drugging kids into frank insensibility for school and foster parent convenience. The State fully reimburses at full name brand price...

Handy, the author of this misbegotten screed is the same guy on whose blog we find "...They were each and all told to go to Hell because slum bunnies need Diversity scholarships. " I won't argue with you, just wanted to go on record in opposition to such profoundly, hatefully irresponsible stuff..referring to the rabid anti-med and anti-therapy pt. of view.



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No problem. The first duty of a counselor is to creat dependence. THERAPIST THE|RAPIST


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[handy]

[/COLOR] I won't argue with you, just wanted to go on record in opposition to such profoundly, hatefully irresponsible stuff..referring to the rabid anti-med and anti-therapy pt. of view.

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No problem. The first duty of a counselor is to creat dependence. THERAPIST THE|RAPIST

He's a retired research chemist with a cynically blunt sense of humor. Tends to zero right in on politically correct nerves. I like him.

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[/color] I won't argue with you, just wanted to go on record in opposition to such profoundly, hatefully irresponsible stuff..referring to the rabid anti-med and anti-therapy pt. of view.

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No problem. The first duty of a counselor is to creat dependence. THERAPIST THE|RAPIST

He's a retired research chemist with a cynically blunt sense of humor. Tends to zero right in on politically correct nerves. I like him.

He is propagating misinformation that could really hurt people. Do you care about that? Or is it good enough for you that he throws clever barbs in a very broad direction ("politically correct") that you find ridiculous? (another question for another day: why?)

I promised not to argue, but as a person who cherishes language, I have to challenge it when it's used in such an off-hand and destructive way, with no other apparent aim than to produce a snide, superior chuckle.

[handy]

He is propagating misinformation that could really hurt people. Do you care about that? Or is it good enough for you that he throws clever barbs in a very broad direction ("politically correct") that you find ridiculous? (another question for another day: why?)

I promised not to argue, but as a person who cherishes language, I have to challenge it when it's used in such an off-hand and destructive way, with no other apparent aim than to produce a snide, superior chuckle.

I didn't notice any blatant misinformation; would you care to point it out?

Nor did I mention any finding of anything 'ridiculous'.

I read him as describing current socially destructive behaviors. I see no 'destructive way' of using language. Clever barbs are called humor by some folks.