NY Times comment / Winthrop Staples

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Winthrop StaplesNewbury Park, CAFLAGHow could anyone with even an elementary knowledge of biology, or an ounce of common sense, not think that having millions take a drug to enable such a basic bodily function, for years on end, IN CHILDREN is probably not only unnecessary, but harmful and morally wrong! Yet another example of our criminal "only profits matter" business culture's control over our society! Identify or manufacture a need or problem, minimize the effectiveness of traditional self help, individual responsibility and discipline to solve the

problem, and then offer an expensive very profitable drug or pill to solve the problem. We should be putting drug manufactures and doctors in jail by the thousands, and mandating daily public exercise and good eating habits. Parents who fail to give their children proper diets should be prosecuted for child abuse. Perhaps since the only thing that so many in power seem to care about is the bottom line, which eventually will be reduced by sky rocketing health care costs and so taxes they will have to pay when the damage of the mountain of prescription drug abuse kicks in, we need to use that selfish $$$ motive to stop our 1%'s intentional advertisement-propaganda drug addiction of our society.