One of the first things I noticed as a teenager of the 60s subculture was the people who dealt the powders and pill seemed to have a symbiotic relationship with guns, the police, and 'businessmen' in suits who generally didn't use the products they profited from.
In the pharmacological-industrial complex, the guns are hired(bodyguards), the police are part of the structure that enforces the laws of a way of life/culture requiring the pills to maintain some semblance of mental 'balance' in relation to the dysfunction of the surrounding society. ...and the suits? Savile Row. All the freedom $34.5 million can buy. I don't suppose parents of Ritalin, Methylphenidate, Methamphetamine, anti-depressant, mood modifier child-users, or the executives of the pharmacological-industrial complex who market this crap passed off as panacea, will be treated any differently when their day in court arrives. The drugging of America's children by their own parents, often enforced by the schools, legal-judicial system, and media/peer pressure ON THE PARENTS has become one of the major human rights crimes of the century. My friends in low places tell me OxyContin is three times as addictive as heroin… "This bucolic town is not far from the spine of the Appalachian Mountains and Kentucky and Tennessee, where abuse of OxyContin exploded in early 2000, just a few years after it was first sold. Both addicts and young experimenters quickly discovered that a pill needed only to be chewed or crushed before ingesting to release large doses of oxycodone, which produced a heroinlike high." In full: http://leighm.net/wp/2007/07/21/damnpusherman_nyt/
