[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by bwind22
This is the reason I have a big problem with just about every new pharmaceutical advancement that comes along. They don't test them well enough...

Stuff like Lasik eye surgery and Viagra are so common nowadays, but no one has any idea what the long term side effects could be because there isn't anyone around that has been on Viagra for 30 years or had laser eye surgery done a long time ago.

Just look at Vioxx. That was being handed out like candy for the last 10 years and just now they realize that it might have some bad side effects. For all the money shelled out for perscriptions and pharmaceuticals and minor medical procedures, you would think the companies would take the time to make sure they've got it right. But they don't. It's all about money.

This is the exact reason that I would never give my kids Ritalin, or any of the other bullshit that they try to push on people to get their kids to 'calm down'...My kids are SUPER HYPER...So was I...But I survived it, and so did my mother :rolleyes: ...WITHOUT drugs...Hell, I'm STILL hyper...lol...Anyway...How can anyone give a mind altering drug to a child whose mind is STILL developing???...Then they wonder why so many teens are drug users, and have mental problems......Give me a break...

Okay...This is really just another rant of mine...But, still it's kinda relevant...Especially when you consider the fact that many of these drugs that are given to so many children on a daily basis (Ritalin among the worse)...Have been found to cause children to feel suicidal and/ or homicidal....I'm not even going to mention the girl who lives 5 streets up from me, who awoke one night to find her 6 year old standing in her bed above her holding a butcher knife with glazed eyes...Yeah he was on Ritalin (Okay so I mentioned it :p)...She called the doctor, and all that he told her was...Just cut the pills in half and see how that works for a while:rolleyes:


Children are NOT guinea pigs...Especially at the expense of their sanity...