Drugged Out Nation:

The drug wars? You thought they were about cocain and the ghetto, well, guess again. It seems we're raising a generation of children being used as guinea pigs for the medical profession. Has your kid every thrown a tantrum in a store? Is he or she a problem for the teacher? Maybe a combo of psychiatric drugs will make him more controlable. But what's the long term effect? How is his or her marriage going to go in the future? What are his or her children going to be like? Is this any way for a society to function? Check out these numbers from today's New York Times:

Last year in the United States, about 1.6 million children and teenagers — 280,000 of them under age 10 — were given at least two psychiatric drugs in combination, according to an analysis performed by Medco Health Solutions at the request of The New York Times. More than 500,000 were prescribed at least three psychiatric drugs. More than 160,000 got at least four medications together, the analysis found.