2008 Woodie Awards
Drug dependence a source of problems
Issue date: 4/27/07 Section: Rocket Letters
To the editor:
One student at Virginia Tech was heard asking, "Where are all these bad people on campus coming from?" The answer might be right in the midst of your own neighbors, children, or maybe you.
I say this because I saw this violence coming a long time ago. I had the displeasure of having to deal with the drug culture many years ago when I had three children of school age. My wife and I got a phone call from the principal of the junior high school to come in for a meeting to discuss disciplinary action for our younger son. We later received a letter asking our permission to give our son drugs to settle him down, to which we said no. We found out later that a very large number of school children are put on Ritalin to calm them down. Kids are naturally boisterous and active and the only reason you would want to calm them down is for the benefit of teachers who can't control their classes.
Instead of looking into the competence of the teacher, it's easier to dope up the kids, with no one the wiser, especially with drug companies spending millions touting the benefits of their product. This is only one introduction into the drug culture our kids have been raised on.
The United States is the most drug happy country in the world. We have drugs to put us to sleep and others to wake us up, or still others to keep us awake for days. We have happy pills for when we are sad and pills to calm us down when we get over-excited. With age, a person's skin begins to sag a little and wrinkles up. Fear not, our chemical wizards will make them disappear as if by magic.
The drugs our children are using on the streets are just an extension of the drugs they have lived with from birth. You wonder why some kids crack up? I think the real wonder is there are any sane kids left in control of their faculties.
This is the origin of the insanity that runs through our society and no doctoring or drugs will cure us. Drugs, legal and illegal, are the harbinger of death of a society and we are all guilty of participation.
R.A. Robbibaro
Cherry Township resident
One student at Virginia Tech was heard asking, "Where are all these bad people on campus coming from?" The answer might be right in the midst of your own neighbors, children, or maybe you.
I say this because I saw this violence coming a long time ago. I had the displeasure of having to deal with the drug culture many years ago when I had three children of school age. My wife and I got a phone call from the principal of the junior high school to come in for a meeting to discuss disciplinary action for our younger son. We later received a letter asking our permission to give our son drugs to settle him down, to which we said no. We found out later that a very large number of school children are put on Ritalin to calm them down. Kids are naturally boisterous and active and the only reason you would want to calm them down is for the benefit of teachers who can't control their classes.
Instead of looking into the competence of the teacher, it's easier to dope up the kids, with no one the wiser, especially with drug companies spending millions touting the benefits of their product. This is only one introduction into the drug culture our kids have been raised on.
The United States is the most drug happy country in the world. We have drugs to put us to sleep and others to wake us up, or still others to keep us awake for days. We have happy pills for when we are sad and pills to calm us down when we get over-excited. With age, a person's skin begins to sag a little and wrinkles up. Fear not, our chemical wizards will make them disappear as if by magic.
The drugs our children are using on the streets are just an extension of the drugs they have lived with from birth. You wonder why some kids crack up? I think the real wonder is there are any sane kids left in control of their faculties.
This is the origin of the insanity that runs through our society and no doctoring or drugs will cure us. Drugs, legal and illegal, are the harbinger of death of a society and we are all guilty of participation.
R.A. Robbibaro
Cherry Township resident
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