Robert Brame, a professor of criminal justice and criminology at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and the lead author of the study, said he hoped the research would alert physicians to signs that their young patients were at risk.This is the tag on an article revealing that a third of all Americans are arrested by the age of 23, or, if you want to be optimistic about it, not quite a third of all Americans are arrested by the age of 23. The herrenperfessers and the perfesserdokters naturally see a growth industry of sorts here; why should the justice system get all the fun and profits while the psychopharmacologists are stuck merely shoveling speed down the gullets of disputatious pre-teens? What profiteth it the Bayer Corporation or whatever if a kid arrested for selling dime bags (can you still buy dime bags? ach, inflation) gets merely a fine and probation, rather than a lifetime of psychiatric medication? Why make the graffiti boys merely scrub off the evidence of their delinquency when you can also sell them Paroxetine?
“We know that arrest occurs in a context,” Dr. Brame said. “There are other things going on in people’s lives at the time they get arrested, and those things aren’t necessarily good.”
If doctors can intervene, he added, “It can have big implications for what happens to these kids after the arrest, whether they become embedded in the criminal justice system or whether they shrug it off and move on.”
-The Times
Chilling and delightful, like a good snappy horror flick: the total, unquestioning acceptance of this as the natural state of modern life, as regular as pimples with puberty.
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didnt they create a drug that eliminates pimples?
An oldie from Kip Werking, The Inevitability of a Medicalized Society.
Maybe public schools should set aside office space for pharmacies just as they have for local police forces. An on-site cop-pharmacist would be the ideal, of course, someone empowered by the law to administer both drugs and justice. Taze and sedate.
Mr. President, I think that we can make a killing forming a hipster dance due called Fauxcault. Debut album, Taze and Sedate. You can play the monkey wrench, band saw, and three-hole punch. I will play the ukelele and do lead vocals.
Though Xanaject dart guns were initially lauded as a non-lethal alternative to Tasers, their widespread use has some civil liberties advocates concerned.
"Flooding our children with Ritalin to keep them from skateboarding is one thing," said one. "But dosing them with Adderall to get them excited about a school recycling program? That clearly goes beyond what the Founding Fathers intended our Pharmacops to do."
A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, could not be reached for comment.
First single: What Žižek's Nostril Knows.
The core mission of the Pharmacop task force will be to identify those young turks who excel at drug use. The leaders of tomorrow will be among them.
I think there is a glorious, circular, universal symmetry to it. Get arrested for drug-related offenses; sentence? Drugs.
didnt they create a drug that eliminates pimples?
Accutane? The drug that supposedly creates a killer instinct?
At least they'll have clear skin when they pump them with xanax to suppress the homicidal urges.
a pause in her day to read .. ,her thoughts for a moment at the corner of methdale and ukelele , .. . then she wanders off ... .
I think i love professors of criminal justice and criminology almost as much as i love terrorism experts.
A security guard needs to be right always; a terrorism expert only needs to be right once.
Serenity took this horror to its logical conclusion. The drugflow will only make the season-shift more exciting.
@prof
surely they're both always right? If we do the sacrifice properly the sun will rise in the morning, the rains will come and the evil spirits will be defeated. That's what i heard anyway.
I stand corrected, carpworld. I want to buy your rock.
"Maybe public schools should set aside office space for pharmacies just as they have for local police forces. An on-site cop-pharmacist would be the ideal, of course,"
Don't overlook the benefits of vending machines.
z''comix, could you say more on how you would see vending fit in to all of this .. ?
You increase profits for the Pharma Sutra if you cut out the Pharma Cyst middleman and sell directly to the students by way of vending machine. Also, too, look into dosing the tater tots. If you don't eat your saltpete, you can't have any pudding, how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your saltpete?
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