That line from the father's song in Mary Poppins, where he's going on about how nothing can go wrong, in Britain in 1910. That's about the point I realized the boy was gonna die in a trench.
It occurs to me after reading Rogers most recent rant, combined with the comments that one drug is as addictive as the other.
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 24, 2011, 05:00:08 pmIt occurs to me after reading Rogers most recent rant, combined with the comments that one drug is as addictive as the other.Someone read that?
Yeah, my husband's grandmother totally gave her kids opium when they had teething issues or whathaveyou. Again, I liken it to the way whiskey etc. is used for "home remedies"...something that's probably on the wane in a lot of American culture today, but hasn't been left behind 100%.Sad thing is, how to raise a nation full of intelligent people eager to learn if they're drugged since they're babies? THAT'S the real scary part.
When the use of crack cocaine became a nationwide epidemic in the United States the 1980s and '90s, there were widespread fears that prenatal exposure to the drug would produce a generation of severely damaged children. Newspapers carried headlines like "Cocaine: A Vicious Assault on a Child," "Crack's Toll Among Babies: A Joyless View" and "Studies: Future Bleak for Crack Babies."But now researchers are systematically following children who were exposed to cocaine before birth, and their findings suggest that the encouraging stories of Yvette H.'s daughters are anything but unusual.So far, these scientists say, the long-term effects of such exposure on children's brain development and behavior appear relatively small.
