Some Pshrinks have been pushing for several years for MANDATORY mental health screens for school kids, followed by MANDATORY drugging of kids they think have problems, with "PROTECTIVE CUSTODY" of kids whose parents refuse.
So far, it's been shot down every year, with Ron Paul leading the block.
I recall annual training one year with CAP cadets on site. About a third came down with symptoms: fast, thready pulse, shallow breathing, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, weakness, chills. Onset was about an hour and it was all of them at once.
Now, in my barracks it would have been Budweiser Flu, but not that coordinated.
I helped the site nurse go through applications with medical info...the usual Ritalin (Which did help me when I was 7, and which my parents and I took me off at 11 to stop zombieism--I was a perfect drone with no creativity), inhalers, minor stuff, and 15 kids on PROZAC.
Me: "Why TF are teenagers on PROZAC???"
Nurse: "Oh, the psychiatrists prescribe it because they feel unloved and as if the world is against them."
Me: "I thought that was part of being a teenager."
Nurse: "I agree, but the parents don't want to work with it, and drugs are easy, and Prozac has become a status symbol."
Turns out, the victims were suffering from caffeine withdrawal--they were under the impression they weren't allowed soda out of the chow hall. So they ran on adrenaline for 48 hours, after cold-turkeying their THREE TO FOUR TWO-LITERS OF MOUNTAIN DEW A DAY
:banghead:
and then went DOWN.
Any parent who would neglect their kids like that, and any "professional" who would assist in drugging them should be jailed if not shot.
We're talking 15% of 100ish kids, 13-17. You CANNOT tell me with a straight face that 15% of that group were clinically depressed. (Not to mention, Ritalin, Xanax, and one kid on all three, poor bastard.)
Anyone trying to mandatorily drug my kids is a Molon Labe scenario. Make no mistake.