We're on drugs

I encourage you to look at this and see what thoughts come into your head. Tennessee's place on the list isn't a big shocker. My first thoughts were of course influenced by my current state of affairs. Where are people getting the money to pay for their scrips? Also, I thought about how medicine is viewed differently in those states lower on the list.

Nathan is a pretty healthy boy. When he does get sick, I really hate going to the doctor because I know they are going to give him and antibiotic as some kind of cure-all. There are so many documented cases of antibiotics that kids become immune to because of over-use. Where do we draw the line?

And crazy meds... How many times has it occurred to me that my problems wouldn't seem so big if I had a chemical in my blood calming the effect? Where did this idea come from? Is there a bigger problem lurking beneath Tennessee's drug-dependency? I think there are several.

One that I am going to suggest is that we are increasingly dependent on a science we don't understand and that we lack the ambition to live life with an attitude of intolerance for complacency. Dig that.