Bother!
"Pooh needs intervention. We feel drugs are in order. We cannot but wonder how much richer Pooh's life might be were he to have a trial of low-dose stimulant medication."
To me that sounds like an advertisement, as if somebody is pushing strong anti-depressants to the very young. Now I am not a psychologist, but would like to hear a professional opinion on some material that I found on the net.
http://children.cchr.org/eng/page00.htm
http://children.cchr.org/eng/page12.htm
"In 1998 in British Columbia, Canada, Health Minister Ms. Penny Priddy asked the College of Physicians and Surgeons to find out why the number of children on Ritalin had tripled since 1992 .....
"In the U.S., production of Ritalin increased by 665 percent between 1985 and 1995, with a 500 percent increase since 1990 ... Already on the market is peppermint-flavored Prozac as an added incentive for children"
My doubts and fears:
Are they trying to norm the remaining people's personalities according to some ISO standard ? After all, doesn't have any definition of 'socially acceptable behaviour' something to do with norms ? That's just to say that a lot things are increasingly standardized these days - a sign of the times.
Canadian
Medical Association Journal