The Law Of Cause And Effect

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide rates for girls ages 10-14 from 2003 to 2004 jumped 76 percent. There were 94 suicides in that age group in 2004, compared to 56 in 2003.

Suicide rates among all American young people, ages 10 to 24, fell 28 percent from 1990-2003.

But in 2004 it shot back up, driven largely by increases among females aged 10-19 and males aged 15-19.

********

You would think, if you read this sterile article from another corporate paid "journalist", that this fact arose from nowhere, as a result of nothing. The Associated Press and other corporate-owned news outlets like to pretend that the law of cause and effect does not exist or, at least, they would like us to think as much.

As it turns out, a report from Medco Health Solutions, charting their own prescription drug claims (this does not include claims submitted to all the other health insurers out there), found that the number of teens, especially girls, taking prescription drugs for type 2 diabetes, sleep problems, and other illnesses is up.

From a review of prescription drug claims for some 370,000 boys and girls ages 10-19, increases were also seen in drugs for attention deficit disorder (ADHD) drugs, antidepressants, type 1 diabetes, antipsychotics, and sleep aids -- with girls leading the growth in all of those drug classes.

Cause and effect?