Reddit now has pharmaceutical ads about drugging your kids to sleep. WTF?
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Reddit now has pharmaceutical ads about drugging your kids to sleep. WTF?
Posted by coFFdp
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SS: Gee doctor, why can’t my child can’t fall asleep? They only spend 17 hours a day consuming bourgeois propaganda on the internet and at school. Surely the pharmaceutical industrial complex has a solution for us, one that could perhaps kick off a lifetime of drug dependence to perform basic human functions?
Also mental illnesses like anxiety, depression, and ocd can cause insomnia
we basically give them speed as well.
Back in my day parents used to just slip some NyQuil or Dimetapp into our sippy cups.
naturally*
It’s what kids crave!
I’ve known a woman who has been dosing her young daughter with melatonin every single day to get her to sleep. Every day. There is no intention of stopping. Her daughter isn’t sick. She has no medical condition. The mother basically parties and uses the melatonin so the partying doesn’t wake her up.
It’s an over-the-counter melatonin supplement… “drugging” is a pretty big reach.
I work with kids in rehab. It’s amazing how they all take sleep medication, and how they’ve progressed for melatonin, to trazodone, and now Seroquel. It’s really insane and concerning.
Melatonin or not, the fact is that you become sensitized to the substances, and eventually you will need something stronger.
“naturally*”
Uh huh. Naturally means without taking something. Oh wait, they’re changing the definition of that word too?