Hahaha Peaches, I hear that... damn kids need to offset their costs!
Forest, lilb's doing alright; I'll give her your regards :-)
I remember YEARS ago, I had agonizing stomach troubles (which immediately ceased when I stopped taking birth control pills -- but I digress). I was prescribed Tagamet, which at the time was brand new, cost $120 for 30 pills and wasn't covered by insurance. I told the doc I didn't pay that much for the goddamned scrip drugs I bought on the street to get high for Chrissake.
Now you can buy the same shit over the counter for like $8. WTF??? The pharms certainly have quite a racket going on.
One thing that really bothers me is that drugs like Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft are being dispensed like Pez. My daughter's 12-year-old friend is on Paxil; that's just freakin' scary... And how do we expect to "keep kids off drugs" when we're supporting the "treatment" of teen angst with prescription drugs? The mind wobbles...
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