A recent USA Today article informs us that there are more kids than ever on drugs in this country. These drugs are not bought from illegal drug dealers. Rather, they are bought from legal drug dealers operating in your neighborhood.

Big Pharma has discovered kids are a new, and largely, untapped group to sell a lifetime of drugs to. If you think that selling drugs to our kids is 'off-limits', or 'immoral', think again.

Drugs for ADHD, Diabetes, Depression, Hypertension , High Cholesterol (yes, that's right, I said Hypertension and High Cholesterol which can now be diagnosed and treated in kids as young as 2 years of age!), etc...

There are now kids as young as 2 years of age being put on anti-psychotic drugs. They can barely even talk, yet somehow they are able to say enough to someone for them to be deemed 'psychotic'. That's right, if you don't like the way your kid is behaving as he/she goes through the 'terrible 2's', without too much effort you can find a doctor who will be willing to diagnose a psychosis which can only be "helped" through the use of what is likely to become a life long dependance upon anti-psychotic medication.

We have to spread the word that we will not allow our kids to become little more than a profit source for investors. We will not allow our kids to be used as guinea pigs. It is unacceptable to sell any drugs to our kids (or adults for that matter) unless we are 100% sure of the safety of these same drugs. As it stands now, the FDA approves a drug, we wait a couple of years until we see a litany of deaths or injuries result. We are then told that these drugs should not have been approved in the first place.

This is absolutely unacceptable!

Our kids need to be fed a healthy and balanced diet. They need to be taught to get out and play and be active. We have to monitor their internal and external environment to ensure there is balance. This is an area where I see far too many even well informed parents are lacking.

A healthy diet, adequate exercise, acid/alkaline balance, and spinal balance (more importantly the relationship of the spine to proper automonic nervous system function) are vital to a healthy internal environment. These are keys to keeping your kids off of drugs and allowing them to grow into healthy, vibrant adults.

We lay the seeds for how our kids will look at drugs in the future by how we teach them to view them as kids. We tell them drugs are bad, and they should stay off drugs, but all the while they see a medicine cabinet full of drugs that mom and dad regularly visit whenever they want to change the way they feel.

In discussions with young athletes who use, or used steroids, one of the common arguements from the steroid users was that they were constantly being told that steroids were bad, yet, they were drugs that were deemed safe enough to prescribe to non-athletes. This was often times seen as justification for the safety for using these drugs. "If my 63 year old overweight and sedentary grandmother can take them, than why would they not be safe for me?"  You see, our kids do not learn so much by what we say to them as much as they do by what they see us doing. What are they learning when they watch you?