Pubdate: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 Date: 02/28/2000 Source: Orange County Register (CA) Author: Steve Gick I find it "troubling" that the number of preschoolers being drugged has increased sharply from 1991 to 1995 ["Toddler Rx rise causes concern," News, Feb. 23]. Could it be that our society's rush to push children into daycare has a bearing on this problem? Researchers should make a comparison between children who are raised at home by a parent, as opposed to those raised in daycare. Perhaps we would find that it is necessary to drug our children so that parents can each have fulfilling careers and nice things. Steve Gisk, Lake Forest