So much for the war on drugs.

While everyone bickers over health care reform and all of its mandates, loss ratios and shifting legal definitions fresh out of an Orwell novel, no one seems to be paying attention to the pharmacist behind the curtain.

Someone just sent me a new study – from the Centers for Disease Control, no less – that reveals one in five kids now are on some kind of prescription drug (if only I had that in school, maybe I could've managed a more socially acceptable career).

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