Re:Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
by dmix on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:12AM
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> medicating kids was for a long time the norm and is being harshly critiqued and challenge more recently
My mom bought into this stuff in the 1990s and I never had proper treatment as a child. Only until I was an adult and saw a doctor myself was I properly diagnosed. The medication was a life-saver in my 20s.
As much as pro-pharma stuff is being pushed behind closed doors there's also tons of pseudoscience "appeals to nature" fallacies [1] being pushed in all public channels, where all chemicals are treated with suspicion. I wish there was more of a balance in the media, because this anti-pharma narrative is everywhere now.
I'm not surprised this manifested into anti-vaxxers. Anyone saying that medication as a solution is still treated with reverence in popular discourse is deceiving themselves. Doctors have all heard the stories by now too.
But that also doesn't mean doctors haven't played a big role in this, including those who massively over-prescribed painkillers, benzos, and antidepressants in the last few decades - which have help distract from all the real positive benefits they provide.
My mom bought into this stuff in the 1990s and I never had proper treatment as a child. Only until I was an adult and saw a doctor myself was I properly diagnosed. The medication was a life-saver in my 20s.
As much as pro-pharma stuff is being pushed behind closed doors there's also tons of pseudoscience "appeals to nature" fallacies [1] being pushed in all public channels, where all chemicals are treated with suspicion. I wish there was more of a balance in the media, because this anti-pharma narrative is everywhere now.
I'm not surprised this manifested into anti-vaxxers. Anyone saying that medication as a solution is still treated with reverence in popular discourse is deceiving themselves. Doctors have all heard the stories by now too.
But that also doesn't mean doctors haven't played a big role in this, including those who massively over-prescribed painkillers, benzos, and antidepressants in the last few decades - which have help distract from all the real positive benefits they provide.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature