Earlier in the week, a nondescript five families, with no apparent links to fish or severed horse heads, set forth with a class action lawsuit against Novartis. Novartis being the pharmaceutical company supplying the blood streams of young children with Ritalin.
For the younger set devoid of simple pleasures in attention and replete with hyperactivity, an added bonus is that of the possible hallucinogenic effects.
Such is the fate of the children of the families holding hard in the suit. All experiencing the wondrous beats of heart palpitations and hallucinations after taking the drug.
Not wanting too much time to lapse between the here and now, 14 Queensland students struck hot on the iron later in the week. Taken too under by the ill effects from an overdose, the timing perfect on continuing the awareness of school students taking drugs beyond normal disorder and moderation.
Education on the economics of market forces which dictate the supply and demanding flow of tablets and pills under the spotlight apparently not part of the expected following focus.
Written on Friday, 31 March 2006