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...Internet. Hospital admission data tend to bear this out, and so does a new study by Ilene Anderson and her colleagues, showing a 15-fold increase in calls to emergency hotlines in California involving teen abuse of over-the-counter cough medicines between 1999 and 2004. "Pharming" parties also appear to on the increase... What's more, it's indisputable that the use of prescription drugs by young people-which may be replacing the "self-medicating" applications of some illegal drugs-has skyrocketed over the past decade. More is now being spent on psychoactive drugs for young people than...
...Well, at least our perspectives are crystallizing. You appear to acknowledge, or at least don't dispute, the fact that teens are being restricted and also medicated with prescription drugs more than ever. But you seem reluctant to face the obvious: that the restrictions and medications are reactions to horrific teen difficulties-occurring in the U.S. and to some extent in some countries that imitate our lifestyle but nowhere else on earth. The timetable that most interests you, perhaps because of your age, is the period from about 1991 to 2003-when prescription medications and extreme restrictions (especially in schools...
...this, it seems, is where we differ: where changes in a few measures of teen problems (over a very short period of years) appear to be favorable over the time period you're concerned with, I'm having trouble seeing those changes as "improvements." Meanwhile, other measures (say, of attempted suicide by teens) have seen no improvement over that same period, and still other measures (of academic performance in high school, use of inhalants, illegal and legal use of prescription drugs, and so on) have gotten worse...
...Byun rises from his seat when the video feed begins and when his half sister and nephew suddenly appear on the screen. He introduces his side of the family, who take deep bows, then reaches to his left for the photo of his recently departed 88-year-old father. "Our father died only ten days ago," he says, holding up the frame in front a camera perched on top of the screen. "When he learned he was finally going to meet you, his heart and mind couldn't handle the excitement." Fighting back tears, his half sister dabs her eyes...
...among voters to view Republicans as stronger on issues involving national security. Without question, Bush has done serious damage to the Republican brand in this arena. But, with the nation waging two wars and terrorism still a threat, that underlying sentiment might be one of the reasons G.O.P. candidates appear competitive...