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My job entails working part time in a pharmacy, and Jeff's spot on about the Adderall. We can't get enough of it to fill all of the requests for it. We have a policy to fill prescriptions for existing customers, so they get theirs, but will not for anyone new who wants it because that would not leave us enough for our existing customers. You should hear these people's desperation when they call and we tell them we can't do it. They are clearly addicts. That's not a judgement, it is a matter of a fact of chemical dependence. What gets me is the ones in their 40s and 50s who are on this junk. Don't tell me they need it to pay attention in school.

And yes, we have sky high prescriptions for anti anxiety, anti depression, and a whole bunch of other mood altering drugs plus many, many, many opiates. Most of these people get this junk free, which tells me the government is paying up as opposed to private insurance, which nearly always has a copay.

America is a heavily drugged up nation.

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Watch over your heart with all diligence,

For from it flow the springs of life.

Put away from you a deceitful mouth

And put devious speech far from you.

Let your eyes look directly ahead

And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.

Watch the path of your feet

And all your ways will be established.

Do not turn to the right nor to the left;

Turn your foot from evil.

— Proverbs 4:23-27 NASB1995

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