Maggie Fox, Vancouver Sun
Published: December 18, 2008
Published: December 18, 2008
In the United States it has been reported that a significant amount of children that have died from medicine overdose has been done on purpose. In these cases parents have given their children nonprescription medicine, or given medicine when it was not needed but there were some cases where they did not mean to hurt the child, they thought it was helping. U.S. Food and Drug Administration made the banning of over-the-counter medicine legal to children fewer than 4, but FDA is trying to up this ban to 12 year olds. I personally don’t believe the ban should be moved up to 12 year olds, when they are 12 they should know if they need medicine or not. The problem with this ban is that in some cases parents are giving their children the medicine to shut them up and this ban will not do anything. They can don’t determine how old the children are when an adult is buying it for them, they can also not stop the parent from giving their child medicine. It is said that most of the parents that are doing this have a history of child abuse, lower-income, and under educated. Still it is unbelievable that a parent will pour medicine down a childs throat just to shut them up. I don’t know how someone can think that is good for a child, or that it isn’t even life threatening. They are still drugs even if they are sold at stores; if they are used not properly they can be just as harmful as drugs on the street.
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