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FoxCMK
June 24, 2009 11:43 AM
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This probably won't go over well.


I mean, why advertise a pharmacy to kids? That's just inane. How many of these tykes are trying to decide where to fill their Xanax prescriptions?

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Gorphlog
June 24, 2009 11:57 AM
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@cmkennedy:

Kids arent the only people who eat candy

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Rectilinear Propagation
June 24, 2009 12:08 PM
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@Gorphlog: Then they should be handing the pill bottles to the adults, not the kids:

...an employee was handing my two daughters actual prescription pill bottles with candy packed in them.

Oh, and OT: I hate web sites that accuse you of trying to steal from them just because you want to right click.

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stranger than fiction
June 25, 2009 2:02 AM
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@Rectilinear Propagation: Opera FTW! It dutifully displays the right-click nastygram, then lets you go ahead and do whatever you started to do in the first place. This might be a side effect of its less-than-ideal handling of javascript, but I'll take it.


I share your annoyance. My right-clicking is usually an attempt to open a page in a separate tab/window for later viewing. I only wish to view your image in context, thankyouverymuch paranoid webmasters! (Anyhow, aren't images better protected by a clear GIF overlay?)

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Suttin
June 24, 2009 3:04 PM
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@Rectilinear Propagation & @Underpants Gnome:


Both Firefox and Internet Explorer have a view source option in the view and page menus, respectivally.

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Rectilinear Propagation
June 25, 2009 12:48 PM
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@Suttin: View Source doesn't give you the options you get in your Context Menu. Granted, there are other ways of getting to those options but it's just annoying especially when disabling the context menu doesn't stop anyone from stealing your stuff.

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joshua70448
June 24, 2009 3:21 PM
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@Suttin: I'm fairly certain they already knew that, the point they're making is that the blog owner's being a jerk by accusing everyone that right-clicks of attempting to steal. I've got a ton of nifty tools in my right-click menu, not just for \"stealing\" images.

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dragonfire81
June 24, 2009 3:31 PM
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@joshua70448: In wealthy areas parents will pay off doctors to diagnose their (perfectly healthy) kids with ADD or ADHD because if you have a learning disability, you get more time on the SATs and other benefits to help you make straight As.

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Underpants Gnome
June 24, 2009 2:09 PM
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@Rectilinear Propagation: That is annoying. Especially since anyone who actually wanted to steal the pictures could just hit \"view source\" and see that the images are hosted over on blogspot [1.bp.blogspot.com]
[1.bp.blogspot.com]

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AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave
June 24, 2009 7:05 PM
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@Underpants Gnome: @Rectilinear Propagation: @joshua70448: I had no clue what you were all talking about until I allowed blogspot on my NoScript list. Before that, I had my normal right click menu. FireFox and add-ons can be so much fun sometimes.

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chipslave
June 24, 2009 11:46 AM
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@cmkennedy: But they are all on Ritalin. Such an over prescribed drug!

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takes_so_little
June 24, 2009 12:40 PM
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@chipslave: How do you know? What percentage of what age kids are on Ritalin? As an elementary school teacher, I have to say your assessment is way off. These days, even special needs kids are not necessarily medicated. Usually medication is reserved for students with demonstrable neurological disorders, and in those cases the effects are closely monitored and frequently reassessed by teachers, pediatricians, and specialists (such as occupational therapists, speech therapists, etc.)

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Mange
June 24, 2009 2:45 PM
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@takes_so_little: I think a lot of that has to do with where you teach. I worked as a \"floating\" pharmacy technician while I was in college, which meant that I went to many different stores whenever they needed extra help. It was amazing to see the different kinds of drugs that went out in each neighborhood. The very affluent areas had enormous amounts of Ritalin and Adderall prescribed. It was amazing. I hardly saw a single prescription for these go out in the less affluent areas of town.

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takes_so_little
June 24, 2009 3:10 PM
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@Mange: \"I think a lot of that has to do with where you teach.\"

Agreed. The fact that I'm proud of how we do things in this district is probably what caused me to bristle a little at the original blanket statement. There are bad school districts and good ones.

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Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!)
June 24, 2009 2:43 PM
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@takes_so_little: Congrats on being in a school district that doesn't suck. A friend of mine had to pull her kids out of school because they gave her an ultimatum -- medicate your five-year-old or we won't teach him. (Which, incidentally, is illegal.)

The problem with her 5-year-old? Reading at a second grade level and BORED OUT OF HIS MIND so acting up. As bored children do. They said it was a learning disability combined with ADHD and he had to be medicated or could not attend school.

Her boys are homeschooled now.

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Julia789
June 24, 2009 6:18 PM
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@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): My child's teacher suggested he had ADD or mild Autism because he was easily distracted and did not make a lot of eye contact. She suggested he be taken to a particular psychiatrist for medication.


I declined. Turns out...He needed EYEGLASSES!


Problem 100% solved now.


He was distracted because he couldn't see the chalkboard easily. He didn't make much eye contact because everything was blurry. He was just really nearsighted.

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takes_so_little
June 24, 2009 6:43 PM
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@Julia789: \"She suggested he be taken to a particular psychiatrist for medication.\" Not buying it. Teachers don't suggest medication, doctors do. She probably suggested he be tested, which may have been a prudent step to take, even if her hunch about what the problem might be turned out to be wrong. That's a cute anecdote, though.

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Julia789
June 25, 2009 12:45 AM
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@takes_so_little: She said \"Don't take this the wrong way, but I've been doing this for 20 years, and I can tell when a child has a medical condition. Here is someone you should contact, he can tell you what type of medication will help.\" She wrote down the name of someone in particular that she recommended. Perhaps other parents used him.

Maybe you're right, and she meant a series of tests, and I took it the wrong way. I realize she did not mean it maliciously, she was trying to help.

Regardless, I took her advice that \"something\" was wrong, and called my pediatrician. She said that sometimes kids with mild to moderate vision problems are mistaken as having ADD or mild Autism. She recommended a pediatric opthamologist, before spending hundreds on psychiatric tests possibly not covered by insurance.

We made the eye doctor appointment and sure enough he was near sighted. We picked out some cute frames and sent him into school the next day, and the difference was amazing. The teacher said. \"I knew something was wrong, I just didn't know what.\" Now he can focus, and everyone is happy.

But it makes me wonder, how many kids are misdiagnosed as having a disorder when they really need glasses? As some other people have attested to, they were prescribed medication as children without ever having spoken to a doctor or having any medical test. The drugs appear to have been prescribed on the parent's word.

Luckily it does appear the \"medicating\" trend has changed, and children are more likely to get extensive testing these days than they were say, 10 years ago. Medication is really helpful for those who need it. But they should be properly tested prior, and behavioral therapy tried first.

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Englishee Teacher
June 25, 2009 2:56 AM
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@Julia789: I completely agree. I teach in Korea, and I don't know whether Ritalin is common here, but I'm in a rather poor area, so I doubt it would be. I have one boy in one of my classes who simply could not sit still. He was constantly squirming in his seat, distracting his deskmate, talking in class... just disrupting the class all around. The homeroom teacher must have figured out what the problem was, because he was moved to the front of the class, then shortly after he showed up with a new set of glasses. The only problem I've had with him since is that he keeps getting ahead in his workbook and completing the exercises before they are assigned. If the teacher had just recommended medication he would probably still be spending half the class standing at the back of the room being punished.

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Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!)
June 24, 2009 9:10 PM
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@takes_so_little: They're not allowed to, but that doesn't stop some of them.

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joshua70448
June 24, 2009 3:05 PM
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@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): That's ridiculous. I was tested for ADD when I was in elementary school because I was acting up a lot, but fortunately they figured out that I belonged in the gifted/talented program, so I've been lucky enough to be med-free. The way I see it, kids like that should either A) be tested to see what learning level they're at and place them there, or B) disciplined properly if they're just acting up. Drugs will just mess them up.

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Alys Brangwin: Future grad student
June 26, 2009 11:09 PM
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@joshua70448: ADD doesn't mean that you're not smart. I was diagnosed with ADD in the fourth grade and I was in the highly-academically gifted program. You also have no idea how the meds affect someone with an actual disorder.

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HogwartsAlum
June 24, 2009 7:14 PM
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@joshua70448:

I had the same problem, but there was no gifted program. :P

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joshua70448
June 24, 2009 7:40 PM
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@HogwartsAlum: What's really fun is that when I moved from Texas to Louisiana in the beginning of 2nd grade, Louisiana refused to recognize that I was in the gifted program in Texas, so they stuck me in a regular class for the rest of the year. With the condition of the educational system in that state, you'd think anyone moving in from Texas would be in the gifted program. ;-)

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AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave
June 24, 2009 7:56 PM
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@joshua70448: I moved here from Texas, y'all, and they think I'm slow.

Just kidding, I love TX.

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joshua70448
June 24, 2009 8:10 PM
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@AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave: Well, I missed Texas so much that I went back to go to college and buy a house. :-D

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AliyaBabasaur
June 24, 2009 1:54 PM
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@takes_so_little: In my homeroom in high school, we sat at large tables that sat 7 kids. At my table, I was one of 5 kids on Ritalin, Concerta or adderall. This is just an anecdote, but I went to school with sooo many kids on medication. The pediatrician who prescribed it never spoke a word to me (only to my parents) before she wrote the prescription, nor did she suggest behavioral therapy to my parents, as she should have. You could say she handed out Ritalin prescriptions like candy.actually needed to be on it. The pediatritian who perscribed it never spoke a word to me before writing the presciption, nor did she suggest behavioral therapy to my parents, as she should have.

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HiPwr
June 24, 2009 1:16 PM
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@takes_so_little: Is it safe to say that this generation of children are way more medicated than their predecessors? Possibly even the most medicated ever?

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WorldHarmony
June 24, 2009 11:49 PM
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@HiPwr: Over-diagnosed AND overmedicated. We pathologize way too many annoying behaviors these days.

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takes_so_little
June 24, 2009 2:07 PM
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@HiPwr: Given my limited experience (only two districts), I would say medication peaked about 10 years back, and has dropped off sharply since.

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WorldHarmony
June 24, 2009 11:58 PM
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@takes_so_little: It may depend on where you teach- you'd be surprised at how things like the economic class of the family influences the diagnoses given to kids or the drugs prescribed.

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HiPwr
June 24, 2009 2:13 PM
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@takes_so_little: Yes, that is a small sample, but encouraging nonetheless. Thanks for the follow-up.

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BenderRodriguez
June 24, 2009 1:22 PM
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@HiPwr: Children aren't the only ones who are over-medicated. Throw alcohol and caffeine into the mix and I bet almost 99% of America is on one kind of drug or another.

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WorldHarmony
June 24, 2009 11:52 PM
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@BenderRodriguez: An adult choosing to drink alcohol or consume caffeine is in a totally different category from children who are forced by adults to take prescription pills to alter their behavior. Totally different scenarios.

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HiPwr
June 24, 2009 2:03 PM
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@BenderRodriguez: I wouldn't clasify caffeine or alcohol as medication in this context. No doctor writes a prescription for grape Mad Dog 20/20 or a vanilla Frapaccino.


Additionally, adults have a choice about what you may call self-medication. Children are dependent on the choices of adults. And while I would never accuse parents of intentionally putting their children at risk by medicating them unnecessarily, I believe it is a distinct possibility that they may be making the wrong decisions based on the information provided to them by the medical community and the pharmacutical industry.


I wonder how man ever made it to the moon without Ritalin.

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puka_pai
June 24, 2009 8:16 PM
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@HiPwr:

I wonder how man ever made it to the moon without Ritalin.
We kinda didn't. All those test pilots, many of whom became astronauts, used to suck down \"pep pills\" that were given to them by the military. That stuff is still issued to pilots routinely.

Speed is patriotic!
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The Porkchop Express
June 24, 2009 2:08 PM
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@HiPwr: I wish my doc would prescribe me some MD 20/20. that would be the tits man.

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squinko
June 24, 2009 11:49 AM
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Is this article trying to tell me that my prescription bottles aren't full of tasty treats, because they are.

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enthreeoh
June 24, 2009 11:54 AM
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\"I guess that's better than filling Dots boxes with Vicodin.\" Says you... Where can I sign up?

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zonk7ate9
June 24, 2009 3:05 PM
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@enthreeoh: Exactly what I was thinking. A Dots box full of Vicodin, where can I buy a bag of those?

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Jim Topoleski
June 24, 2009 12:00 PM
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@enthreeoh: I know sounds like Halloween for Gregory House.

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enthreeoh
June 24, 2009 12:10 PM
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@Jim Topoleski: haha, I was thinking of him as I wrote that.

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bohemian
June 24, 2009 11:56 AM
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Someone in the pharmacy had to have been involved and didn't see this as a really bad idea. The same person making sure you get the right drugs.

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Rectilinear Propagation
June 24, 2009 1:34 PM
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@bohemian: I re-read the article and the kids got the pill bottle full of candy at the entrance, not at the pharmacy itself. So it might not have needed an OK from someone in the pharmacy.

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Rectilinear Propagation
June 24, 2009 12:27 PM
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@bohemian: That's just depressing.

I agree with the anonymous comment on the Salisbury News page that said this: \"Whoever thought of this promotion should be made to do volunteer work at Poison Control and see how many kids take pills thinking they are candy.\"

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SacraBos
June 24, 2009 4:12 PM
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@Rectilinear Propagation: \"That's just depressing.\" Sounds like you need a prescription for some Dots. Although you can get the generic gumdrops for less. Damn candy patents, making me get cheap Canadian sweets.

@synimatik: They are not lacking creativity. This is creative. Lacking intelligence? I'm with you.

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synimatik
June 24, 2009 11:59 AM
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@bohemian: Pharmacist involved or not, it's another example of people who are in charge lacking intelligence and creativity. This is beyond poor judgment, it's utter stupidity.

I suppose their next promotion might be to coat all of their cutlery in honey?

Idiots.

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thebluepill
June 24, 2009 11:57 AM
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Holy Mother of bad ideas!

When I was a toddler, mom and dad were putting \"Mr. Yuck\" Stickers on the stuff that wasn't kid-safe for consumption!

There is no logical reason that a pharmacy desk should market to children in any way. Children cant even fill perscriptions, correct?

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yagisencho
June 24, 2009 9:36 PM
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@thebluepill:


My first thoughts on reading about this were 'Poison Center'.

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Julia789
June 24, 2009 6:19 PM
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@thebluepill: MR. YUCK! I remember Mr. Yuck from when I was a kid. I'm 34 now! Wow time goes by, but Mr. Yuck remains!

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ElizabethD
June 24, 2009 1:26 PM
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@thebluepill:

\"Holy Mother of bad ideas!\"

My thought exactly. Wow.

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starzshine
June 24, 2009 12:23 PM
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@thebluepill: Haha! Mr Yuck stickers? Where do I get those for my toddler? :)

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thebluepill
June 24, 2009 1:08 PM
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@starzshine:

To request a free sheet of
Mr. Yuk stickers, please send a self-addressed, stamped business size envelope to:

Mr. Yuk
Pittsburgh Poison Center
UPMC
200 Lothrop Street
BIR 010701
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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zentex
June 24, 2009 2:26 PM
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@thebluepill: thank you. I been wondering where to find them, but kept forgetting to look.

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dmolavi
June 24, 2009 12:13 PM
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@thebluepill: what's worse is, like the article states, kids may associate pill bottles with candy after this. i wonder how many lawyers are chomping at the bit for lawsuits on this one...

btw, your username is somewhat ironic in the context of this article :)

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MrPenny
June 24, 2009 12:04 PM
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Huh...maybe I was right? It is kind of odd to get my jelly beans in a Fleet enema bottle.

I wondered why the flavor seemed a little flat.

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takes_so_little
June 24, 2009 12:14 PM
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Wow, stunning stupidity. And it could've been a good idea, too. I pick up scripts at different pharmacies, depending on time of day and my location. However, if there was one that gave out free candy, you know, NOT IN THE SCRIPT BOTTLES THEMSELVES, my kid would be bugging me to go to that one. Hell, I'd probably go without his impetus. I like candy. So that way, it's the PLACE that the kid associates with candy, not those little amber bottles.

The place I grocery shop at has free cookies for kids. I'm not saying I do whatever my son begs me to do, but he will definitely voice his opinion if I consider going to a different store. Luckily, the cookies don't come packaged in skoal tins.

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SacraBos
June 24, 2009 4:29 PM
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@takes_so_little: Are the Skoal Cookies located next to the candy cigarettes [candy-crate.stores.yahoo.net] and Big League Chew [www.candyfavorites.com] ?

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AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave
June 24, 2009 12:17 PM
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If only child proof lids weren't so easy for kids to open, and so damn hard for adults, maybe more scripts would come in them.

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Ann O'Dyne
June 24, 2009 12:23 PM
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Gee, did they put safety-caps on the vials?

I can't think of a worse idea for a kid-related giveaway. The idea that those pretty pills are candy will be reinforced. So now if they want more candy, where do they go? If they had to put something into a prescription container, there are any number of smaller - age-appropriate toys they could have used.

Sam's Club has just taken three giant steps backwards in the medication safety arena. I'd be willing to bet they didn't consult the pharmacists about the promotion.
As a pharmacist, I'm totally appalled.

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Kogenta
June 24, 2009 2:09 PM
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@Ann O'Dyne: As bad as their \"promotion\" is, what else in a pharmacy can you stick candy in that they have large numbers of? Unlabeled medication vials are about the only container they have.


While I think this was a bad idea, I can completely see how it came about. It would have been smarter to tape a flyer advertising the pharmacy to the standard \"fun size\" candy package though.

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takes_so_little
June 24, 2009 2:16 PM
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@Kogenta: \"what else in a pharmacy can you stick candy in that they have large numbers of?\"

Customers' hands. If you have a lot of customers, that is, which I'm hoping this one won't in the future.

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takes_so_little
June 24, 2009 1:01 PM
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@Ann O'Dyne: \"I can't think of a worse idea for a kid-related giveaway.\"

What if they hid the candy in full bottles of actual prescription medication?

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Murph1908
June 24, 2009 12:32 PM
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Is it too early for nominations for 2010 WCiA?

This is incredibly stupid. And 'incredibly' is the right word. I don't understand how someone could be so stupid.

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txinfo
June 24, 2009 12:33 PM
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I would love to have a gallon sized jug of nerds.

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thisheregirafFe
June 24, 2009 2:11 PM
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@txinfo: dots box filled with vicodin for me, please...

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ret3
June 24, 2009 1:51 PM
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@txinfo: I'll take one, too. Grape, please!

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Changed my name to \"I like potatoes\"
June 24, 2009 12:37 PM
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All I can think of is thia PSA from the 80's that played all the time when I was a kid!

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CorrieCJ
June 25, 2009 2:16 PM
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@changed my name: I was about to go looking for this... I remember it from many a Saturday AM in my youth.

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MooseOfReason
June 24, 2009 1:49 PM
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@changed my name: God, that's f'ing hilarious.

\"No, no, noo, Nooooo!\"

Thanks.

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Rectilinear Propagation
June 24, 2009 1:43 PM
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@changed my name: GAH, \"Dangerous\" by Busta Rhymes song stuck in my head!

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Cant_stop_the_rock
June 24, 2009 12:38 PM
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\"On the downside, as a pill recipient at Salisbury News notes, \"Now my 3 year old thinks all prescription pill bottles are just tasty snacks\".\"

Sam's Club was stupid to give the candy out in pill bottles, but why would you let your kids eat the candy when this result is foreseeable?

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Rectilinear Propagation
June 24, 2009 1:22 PM
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@Cant_stop_the_rock: We don't know from the article whether or not they let the kids eat it, we only know the kids were handed the bottle before they could stop them.

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winshape
June 24, 2009 12:49 PM
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@Cant_stop_the_rock: Taking candy from a baby is much easier than taking candy from a 3 year old who is determined to get that candy with every fiber of his/her being. This is especially bad if you are just beginning your shopping run knowing that it is about to become a screaming tantrum-fest.

It doesn't matter how disciplined your kids are. IF they know what candy is, and they get candy, and then you take that candy away - they are going to not be happy.

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takes_so_little
June 24, 2009 12:53 PM
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@winshape: And even when you do take the candy away, it's too late. The connection has already been made: little amber bottles = candy. (Also, person who took the candy away from me = the devil).

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winshape
June 24, 2009 2:29 PM
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@takes_so_little: Yep, that's a good way to lose a hand. Don't you be eyin' my dark chocolate peanut M&M's...

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takes_so_little
June 24, 2009 3:12 PM
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@winshape: \"Don't you be eyin' my dark chocolate peanut M&M's... \"

Then please stop holding them near your cleavage.

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Robbiedrama
June 24, 2009 12:39 PM
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oh this is where I grew up, it does not surprise me. The people in this town don't...what's the word....read a lot.

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June 24, 2009 2:04 PM
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@Robbiedrama:

Apparently you did not learn anything from the schools in this area either. Your usage of the English language (grammar) is atrocious. I'm from Salisbury, received an advanced degree, and still live in the area. I'm sure I can match or beat your \"reading\" skills any day of the week.

What, may I ask, does your comment have to do with the content of this article?

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Carso
June 24, 2009 12:55 PM
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I would like to have been a fly on the wall when they were having the conversation about this promotion. Who was there, and at what point did those individuals decide that sending a confusing message to impressionable children about the dangers of medicine was a good idea?

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takes_so_little
June 24, 2009 1:01 PM
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@Carso: \"Hey, I know! They put prizes in breakfast cereal, right? Well....\"

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PLATTWORX
June 24, 2009 1:08 PM
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WOW, teaching kids that drugs from the pharmacy are \"candy\".


I betcha Wal-Mart (who owns Sams) sees this and gets to that store PRONTO before this ends up in national news. A store manager is about to be fired. STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!

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HiPwr
June 24, 2009 1:20 PM
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It's really going to cut down on my candy consumption if I have to get a doctor's prescription for it.

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I was a Nissan owner in the Fall of 2001. At the height of 9/11 and the Anthrax mail scares, Nissan launched its 'Prescription for the Common Car' mailing campaign complete with an prescription bottle stuffed with literature inside. About a week later, a very red-faced apology letter also arrived, begging for forgiveness.

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Rectilinear Propagation
June 24, 2009 1:32 PM
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Another thing wrong with this is that a complete stranger is giving the candy to the kids without their parents permission. If they'd asked the parents if it was OK first at least then they'd have had the chance to say 'No'.

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WorldHarmony
June 25, 2009 1:04 AM
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@Rectilinear Propagation: I'm so glad you fixed it, because I couldn't for the life of me understand that sentence without it!

Seriously, though, I HATE that we can't edit our comments. I've made enough typos on these pages to hang my head in shame.

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HiPwr
June 24, 2009 2:05 PM
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@Rectilinear Propagation: I was going to completely disregard your comment until you acknowledged your missed apostrophe.

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ExtraCelestial
June 24, 2009 2:19 PM
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Hah. Salisbury. Why am I not surprised?


I don't know if it's because so many below average people go to school out there and wreck havoc or if there is something in the water, but it is becoming more and more apparent that Salisbury is the idiot capital of Maryland.

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JGKojak
June 24, 2009 2:34 PM
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What could possibly go wrong?

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SoCalGNX
June 24, 2009 2:40 PM
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Do they have candy cigarettes to go with this?

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segfault
June 24, 2009 2:42 PM
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Remember, kids, Oxycontin is tasty-tasty.

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bbagdan
June 24, 2009 3:12 PM
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Wow. Next they'll be dropping turkeys from helicopters.

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KhaiJB
June 24, 2009 3:36 PM
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great.

we spend years reminding ppl not to put bleach or pesticides in soda bottles so the kids don't get poisoned thinking it's safe to drink.....

common sense is so very rare these days...

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Nick1693
June 24, 2009 3:36 PM
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How about you let your kids have the candy and teach them that pills can make them ill.

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Rectilinear Propagation
June 25, 2009 1:35 PM
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@Nick1693: Because some pills look like candy. You don't expect a two year old to be able to tell that one pink chewable thing is candy and another pink chewable thing is medicine. You teach your kids that pill bottles never, ever contain candy.

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Myron
June 24, 2009 3:44 PM
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When my wife was pregnant with our last child she developed gestational diabetes (pregnancy related diabetes, often goes away after baby is born). She had a prescription for a diabetes drug and filled it at a new CVS nearby. I guess because the store was new the pharmacy was giving away a large Hershey's bar with each prescription filled. Taped to the bar was some note about how great their pharmacy is and how happy they are to have you as a customer. So here is my wife, getting diabetes medications filled at CVS, and getting free candy with the prescription.

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Rectilinear Propagation
June 25, 2009 1:30 PM
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@Myron: It's always weird when a doctor, pharmacy, etc. is giving candy since they're usually telling that it's bad for us and that we're consuming too much fat, sugar, and salt.

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axiomatic
June 24, 2009 4:36 PM
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I'm not usually one to buy in to all the panic but isn't teaching kids that there is candy in medicine bottles kind of a risky thing to do?

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Danica Grannon
June 24, 2009 5:41 PM
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\"I guess that's better than filling Dots boxes with Vicodin. Or handing out gallon-sized jugs of Nerds.\"

Nothing is better than a gallon of nerds, and I'd would never turn down a free vicodin... Guess that's just me. :D

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kabuk1
June 24, 2009 6:25 PM
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Wow... what a TERRIBLE idea. Don't they know how dumb kids are? This is a 5-year-old-full-of-vicodin waiting to happen.

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WorldHarmony
June 24, 2009 11:47 PM
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That is the dumbest thing a pharmacy could have thought of. Any responsible pharmacist would have boycotted that event and sent a notice to Corporate.

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pika2000
June 25, 2009 7:20 AM
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Why anybody is freaking out about this? How often people give their children tylenol, ibuprofen, flavored antibiotics, etc? Why can't the parents simply explain to the kids what it is and move on? But no, one has to whine and get offended by every little things.

Kids follow what their parents do. If parents keep popping in pills, drink alcohol, smoke, etc, it's not a surprise that their kids will follow suit.

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ageekymom
June 25, 2009 8:34 PM
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@pika2000: You are not a parent yet, are you?
While you may be able to teach a 5 year-old the difference between pills and candy, it is quite a different story with toddlers. This was a really bad idea.
On top of the idea of handing out candy in Rx vials, I have a big problem with a stranger (and I don't care if he/she works there or not) handing my kid candy without asking me first.

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Rectilinear Propagation
June 25, 2009 1:40 PM
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@pika2000: Kids eat medicine because it looks like candy. You keep kids from doing that by telling them that if it's in a pill bottle it's not candy. You don't want somebody contradicting that by sticking candy in pill bottles and handing them to children. It's ridiculous.

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John Davis
June 25, 2009 11:42 AM
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Wow what a great idea! I like it!

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