Why don't you ever hear about how many school shootings and deaths occur from taking Rx drugs?
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Because those drugs are actually good for something.  And if you don't believe me, then come to my house this weekend, I'll go off my Ritalin, and we'll clean the basement together.  You'll see how much work gets done.
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If I remember correctly, despite popular myth, it is nearly impossible to kill oneself with over the counter meds....\n\nAlley
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Alot, mostly from dehydration or a heart attack or stroke. I don't think hospitals have released official numbers but its not uncommon where I live to hear of someone dying from it.
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The School districts has a policy which is based on  State Laws, which governs the administration of medication to students.\n\nSchool personnel cannot provide asprin or other over-the-counter medicine to students.\n\nPupils requiring prescription medication during school hours shall be identified by parents and/or physicians to the school nurse, teachers, and other school personnel.\n\nThe school nurse's office shall maintain a list of pupils needing medication during school hours, including type of medication, when given and dose. The school nurse will administer those drugs at each school
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I don't know about anywhere else, but where I live, \nPolice are arogant S.O.B.'s \nI can't count on one hand how many times I drove by a posted police cruiser, and the bastard was sleeping. \n\nAnd then the day that my friend got jumped by 36 highschool students, we were RIGHT DOWN THE STREET from the police station. I was looking at it the whole time. And it took them 45 minutes to respond to 27 phone calls within 30 minutes. \nAs a result, the 36 students had plenty of time to send my friend into convultions from kicking his head around.
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Why is it so important for so many people to intrude into the lives of others?  A better question to ask other than "Why should it be leagalized?" is "Why is it illegal?"  Why has the government decided that some drugs (alchohol, nicotiene, caffiene) should be legal for unregulated consumption, and a basically harmless soft drug like marijuana with debatable medicinal benifits is demonized and thrown into the same catagory as herion and cocaine which like alchohol have ruined millions of lives and killed millions of people?\n\nWhy are you so concerned with what people do with their personal time?
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It can give a high if taken in high doses, but only a certain kind of Coricidin. I won't say which, of course, but taking the wrong kind in high doses will kill. I haven't had any problems with it, personally, because I don't take drugs, but there was a TV investigation about abuse of its use within schools.
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drugs are seriously bad for you\none bad reaction to a pill can kill\none pint will hardly have any affect( in most people lol )\n\ndrug users create a huge problem for society. a high percentage of criminals are involed in drugs in one way shape or form.\nmental health is a huge problem for most hard core drug users.\ni not saying alcohol - drink are faultless, not at all in fact our streets are not safe after closing time most nights\n\nhowever rather than throwing our hands up and saying we give up we cant cope or deal with you. we must continue to strive to help those affected by drugs, users and their friends/families.\n\nwe must not create a free for all society where anything goes.\nwe are adults and have choice but some people make the wrong choices.\nlaws protect people from criminals and by legalising drugs you are in a round about way legalisiing the actions of people in an altered state( much the same as drunk behaviour, sorry gov i didnt mean to run her over i was drunk etc)\n\nmaking aware the facts of drugs is a great thing to do but what good does it do to a 15 yr old who dies due to bad reaction...many known cases.\n\ndrink and smoke are also addictive but the effects are medically researched and reported. they also do not not need criminal acts to fund.\nthe effect of drugs on mental health are totally incomplete and research is already showing links to schizoprenia and other mental illness'\n\nlets hope that progress is made and we can combat all of societys ilness'\nbut meanwhile \n\ndont give up trying
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Yes. The war on drugs is a failure. There are more prisons than schools and this has not solved the problem. My state Oklahoma spends $48000 on average per year for each inmate and $3000 on every student. The majority of these are non-violent drug offenders and need help not incarceration. Do we remember Prohibition? Violence increases when you make things illegal and let's face it you can get drugs as easy as you can cigarettes and liquor. Having said this IT MUST BE REGULATED. On the black market who knows what you're buying MUCH MORE DANGEROUS because it's cut with all sorts of bad stuff. Make cash from TAXES and let it help the problem. I do not condone drug use, but I do not believe the government should be able to regulate what goes into my body. Where does it end. Can't have dessert cause it causes obesity and heart problems? There will still be a drug problem as long as people take them, but making it illegal has made the problem worse despite all good intentions.
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the only thing that will kill you is the fact that you are ingesting an illegal substance...drugs are not illegal because someone decided to make them that way for the hell of it...they are illegal because they are dangerous and have adverse effects on your health
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What’s Driving Teens to Abuse Prescription Drugs?\n\nTeens and substance abuse experts say that there are many different reasons for the rise in prescription drug mis-use and abuse by young people. Teens point to personal or family-related stress as a major reason why they mis-use or abuse prescription drugs. \nhttp://www.freevibe.com/Drug_Facts/prescription_whatsdriving.asp\nhttp://www.teens.drugabuse.gov/stories/story_xtc1.asp\nhttp://www.teens.drugabuse.gov/stories/story_mj1.asp\nhttp://www.drugfree.org/Teen/teen_4.html\nTeens turn to Internet for prescription drugs\n94 percent of Web sites don't require a doctor's note, study finds\nhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15240265/\nhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5061674
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So many people today are like sheep, not taking responsibility, or not wanting to take any action for their own betterment. They don't want to take the time to do the real research, instead, they rely on teachers and doctors to herd them through life.\nIt pains me to see so many duped 'educated professionals'. They do not take the time to look at the evidence available outside of thier corporate dictated textbooks. Of course, if anything goes wrong they can always blame it on someone else.\n\n---------------\nJulian Whitaker M.D - "Class action lawsuits have been filed in Texas, California and New Jersey charging Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, maker of Ritalin, with conspiracy to create the psychiatric disorder known as ADHD in order to fuel the market for their product."\n\nLawsuits filed in Texas, California and New Jersey claim that the booming success of Ritalin is the result of a conspiracy in which the American Psychiatric Association, Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. and national parents' group Children and Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) colluded to create the diagnoses of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Following the acceptance of ADD/ADHD as medical diagnoses, sales of Ritalin and similar stimulants have skyrocketed, with more than 6 million such prescriptions being written in 1995, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.\n-------------\nCourts Order Kids To Take Drugs - Parents pressured to put kids on AZT, Ritalin, and other dangerous toxic drugs. Judges can constitutionally order controversial chemotherapy and drugs to be given to a child over the opposition of his parents.  Parents are medicating their children for fear of having them  hauled away by Child Protective Services. more \n\n"The drugging of children has gotten so out of hand that America is waking up to this. This is a national catastrophe. I'm seeing children who are normal who are on five psychiatric drugs." \nPeter R. Breggin, M.D. Director, International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology\n-------------\nDr. Allen Buresz - "In 1996 the World Health Organization warned that Ritalin over-use has reached dangerous proportions. Hopefully, by being armed with correct information, you may be able to avoid using Ritalin or other similar medications. Use of these drugs on a long-term basis is questionable. Safety of such long-term use is simply unknown, but many dangerous side effects have been increasingly. Ritalin, for instance, may provoke seizures and suppress growth, or it may cause angina, blood pressure changes, depression or any of a very long list of serious side effects."\n\nDr. Robert Mendelsohn MD - "No one has ever been able to demonstrate that drugs such as Cylert and Ritalin improve the academic performance of the children who take them.... The pupil is drugged to make life easier for his teacher, not to make it better and more productive for the child." \n-------------\nThe Connection Between ADD and Diet\nIt has long been known that consumption of certain foods and beverages can have a noticeable and particularly bad effect on ADD children, causing severe problems. These children, for example, often become extremely hyperactive after having coloured cordials or fruit syrup drinks, hot dogs, various junk foods and cola drinks. ADD, ADHD and related conditions are ones for which conventional medicine offers mainly drug treatments; stimulants which suppress symptoms but do not remove causes and which may have undesirable side effects. Other management techniques on offer - such as psychological intervention, educational and behavioural management techniques - commonly do not produce the desired results. Hertha Hafer's research explains why this is so. \n\nHafer has been studying the dietary connection to ADD/ADHD for twenty and more years. While it has long been kno
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For the same reason we have every other law in this country.  It's basic civics.  There are certain things we know we shouldn't do, like kill people, but some person might anyways, and there has to be legislature for the person to be punished, setting an example that we shouldn't do these things. \n\nThe drug part is different.  If you came up with an entirely new drug right now, there would be no criminal law against using it, because there is no legal reference for it.  Here's an example:  Back in the 80's Ecstasy used to be legal.  You could buy it with your credit card in a bar, just like alcohol.  Then a shipment of a dangerous drug came over called, China Whites, that caused fatalities.  Congress freaked, declared Ecstasy a dangerous drug and declared it illegal.  The same thing for pot and mushrooms.  Somewhere along the line congress thought it was dangerous or being abused and had to declare it illegal.
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It is probably a combination of being injured and possibly the medication.  Personally, I try to avoid all drugs as much as possible, because all of them have side effects.  Especially avoid long term usage of any drug and use the smallest effective dose.  You should also call your doctor or nurse and see if there is something else you could take.  Also, have you ever noticed that with a lot of people that make the news for going on rampages, it ends up that they were on a prescription med?
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Because a lot of them have lost friends or family to them.  I used to think the same way...I do think a lot of people, esp. right-wing Christian folks or other relgious folks freak out too much over soft drugs (i.e. pot), but the reality is that ANY drug, including alcohol can be very damaging, or even lethal of done long enough, or at the wrong time, etc.  So I think they just think it's better to tell people not to even try them, than to risk someone getting hurt. \n\nBut almost everyone knows what it's like to lose someone to a substance or to have someone they love injured by someone under the influence.
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Drugs that kill kids..K
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Yes, particularly in teenagers. This is common knowledge now, and reinforces that the user of those medications should have a support network of friends and relatives that can help monitor behavior on these meds.