August 1, 2003

Too Much Reliance on Medication

To the Editor:

I am glad to see that there are professors out there who can see through the smoke screen that the psychiatric profession and drug companies have created regarding mood disorders and chemical imbalances in the brains of teenagers. In "Let's Not Medicate Away Student Angst" (The Review, June 13), Joli Jensen is correct in pointing out that moodiness, oppositionality, and irritability are normal teenage traits -- not diseases that need to be treated.

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