Gad, what a stupid, stupid man...
This struck me as particularly funny: "The Federal Drug Administration hasn't approved it for children under age 18, the agency said."
So does that make it somehow WORSE? If he'd given the kid Paxil, Prozac or Valium (approved for children as young as 6 months old - can you fucking believe that?), would it be any less a crime to slip the kid a mickey?
Normally I don't like the idea of giving kids medicine of ANY kind unless there's truly no other option; but I'll admit that if I was forced to take a toddler on an INTERNATIONAL flight (and I'd have to be forced, because even a DOMESTIC flight with a kid in tow is a damned nightmare), I'd probably make sure to have a bottle of Pediatric Robitussin at hand to dose the kid when she was over the edge and needed to be knocked out. Traveling is hell, even for adults -- and at least we have the option to cocktail ourselves into sleeping through enough of any flight that the torture is somewhat lessened.
Probably the only thing more frustrating than traveling with a toddler is doing so with a 6'6" man... the toddler probably does less whining, I swear!
