THE POLITE PUSHERS
Drug pushers are everywhere.
They don't all bare fangs or wear funny clothes.
Some are fine upstanding people and leaders of our community.
Take the American Academy of Pediatrics...please.
Now, you might think that folks who put the word "pediatrics" in front of their name would have as their primary interest the health and safety of children.
Wrong again, Bunkie.
Not when you have such a close working relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.
You see, the American Academy of Pediatrics has just released its latest decree from on high (HA!) that you are now free to give Ritalin to children as young as 4.
This is for the ever--increasing population of (mostly) boys who have Attention Deficit Disorder.
Now, I went to school for far too many years and I cannot recall even one kid in any of our classes who might have had ADHD.
Of course, this "disease" is a modern construct - created almost simultaneously with the "discovery" of Ritalin, but even so, I don't remember one kid in our school who would have fit the description.
Only a few years ago, "science" announced that, lo, there were now adults who suffered from ADHD and they they too should be blessed with a steady supply of Ritalin.
But I carry on needlessly, because unless you yourself are suffering from some peculiar form of attention disorder, I am sure you are getting the picture.
Drug pushers push drugs.
More and more of them these days wear striped shirts and bow-ties.
