This year, before schools opened up in September, some televisions tuned into to view a drug company advertise their sleeping drug to school age children. The commercial boasted "it's back to school season", implying that students heading back to school are the perfect candidate for their sleep agent.
First and foremost, only school age students with SEVERE sleeping issues should be taking drugs to help them with pills. They are too young to be turning to pills to cure their problems.
Second the side effects that are associated with this product include depression and thoughts of suicide. For those adults reading this blog post, remember back to when you were still in high school. I think it's safe to say that this age is difficult and confusing enough with including increased chances of depression. For children, it seems as though it is easier for them to get down on themselves and hard to bring those feelings back up.
Along with using unethical advertising companies are also becoming hard to trust based on their products. Take for example the latest recall by Mattel that included more than 300,000 products was due to the use of lead paint to craft these toys.
With companies as large as Mattel and numbers as high as their latest recall, how can we trust companies to look out for our well being as well as our children's. It seems impossible to protect against the unethical actions of corporations and difficult to believe they are taking every measure possible to keep their consumers safe. As adults we may have somewhat of an advantage over our children and must work hard to protect them from the unethical ways of corporations.
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