kid kids. i know in my class it's > 20% and they're tweens. none of them are on anti-depressants, but medicating is normalized, so i assume their parents and they will medicate at higher rates as they grow older.

(i'd assume behavioral medication rates are MUCH higher among teens and families with money).

pointing at the meds isn't productive though. most countries with similar standards of living are prescribing as much or nearly as much as we are. and it's rising....iceland was tops in europe with about 100 doses per 1,000 people 10 years ago, they're up to like 130 now.

those countries don't have mass shootings in schools. australia's probably the most like the u.s. in terms of medication rates and other cultural factors, but it only took 1 young man shooting a bunch of people for them to change their gun laws.

imagine how many people would still be around if we'd responded to columbine the way they responded to port arthur and the u.k. responded to dunblane. and neither of those are quite the our situations because they involved a young man killing tourists and a middle aged man killing kids....not young men targeting their community and classmates.

shit like what happens here, repeatedly, just doesn't happen elsewhere.