Look at it this way. The kid doesn't have to pay for drugs out of
his pocket. He gets them in a shrink's office. Insurance covers it.
His parents may be able to work a Social Security disability claim and receive $$ and other free medical treatments.
The kid's school cashes in. They're now teaching a disabled child. Government aid.
No wonder
Health Day News (4/24/14) reports that 1 in 13 American children are now on at least one psychiatric medication.
In 2012, the Archives of General Psychiatry reported a 7-fold increase
in psychiatrists prescribing (powerful and toxic) antipsychotic meds to
children, based on an analysis of office visits.
Then we have this (12/13/2009,
truth-out [dot] com, by Evelyn
Pringle): from 1996-2006, US child prescriptions for psychiatric drugs
up 50%; in 2006, more money was spent ($8.9 billion) on treatment for
child mental disorders in the US than for any other medical condition in
kids.
The legal drug traffickers (pharmaceutical companies) are banking on the
obvious: rope in a child, get him on psychiatric meds, and you may well
have a customer for life.
Mass shootings reportedly involving children? A Pharma bonanza. "We
have to catch the mental disorder early and treat (drug) it, to avoid
more such tragedies." Obama announces a program to build community
mental health centers (pushers) across America.
Never mind that the SSRI antidepressants (Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, et al)
can and do produce violent behavior. Suicide, homicide. See work of
Peter Breggin, SSRI Stories, and David Healy.
In 2012, I reported this:
It's the latest thing. Psychiatrists are now giving children in poor
neighborhoods Adderall, a dangerous stimulant, by making false diagnoses
of ADHD, or no diagnoses at all (
New York Times, 10/9/2012). Their aim? To "promote social justice," to improve academic performance in school.
The rationale is, the drugged kids will now be able to compete with children from wealthier families who attend better schools.
Leading the way is Dr. Michael Anderson, a pediatrician in the Atlanta
area. Incredibly, Anderson told the New York Times his diagnoses of ADHD
are "made up," "an excuse" to hand out the drugs.
"We've decided as a society that it's too expensive to modify the kid's
environment. So we have to modify the kid," Anderson said.
A researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Ramesh Raghavan,
goes even further with this chilling comment: "We are effectively
forcing local community psychiatrists to use the only tool at their
disposal [to "level the playing field" in low-income neighborhoods],
which is psychotropic medicine."
So pressure is being brought to bear on psychiatrists to launch a
heinous behavior modification program, using drugs, against children in
inner cities.
It's important to realize that all psychotropic stimulants, like Adderal
and Ritalin, can cause aggressive behavior, violent behavior.
What we're seeing here is a direct parallel to the old CIA program,
exposed by the late journalist, Gary Webb, who detailed the importing of
crack cocaine (another kind of stimulant) into South Central Los
Angeles, which went a long way toward destroying that community.
Deploying the ADHD drugs creates symptoms which may then be treated with
compounds like Risperdal, a powerful anti-psychotic, which can cause
motor brain damage.
All this, in service of "social justice" for the poor.
And what about the claim that ADHD drugs can enhance school performance?
The following pronouncement makes a number of things clear: The 1994
Textbook of Psychiatry, published by the American Psychiatric Press,
contains this review (Popper and Steingard):"Stimulants [given for ADHD]
do not produce lasting improvements in aggressivity, conduct disorder,
criminality, education achievement, job functioning, marital
relationships, or long-term adjustment."
So the whole basis for this "social justice" program in low-income
communities-that the ADHD drugs will improve school performance of kids
and "level the playing field," so they can compete academically with
children from wealthier families-this whole program is based on a lie to
begin with.
Meddling with the brains of children via these chemicals constitutes
criminal assault, and it's time it was recognized for what it is.
In 1986, The International Journal of the Addictions published a most
important literature review by Richard Scarnati. It was called "An
Outline of Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate)"
[v.21(7), pp. 837-841]. Adderall and other ADHD medications are all in
the same basic class; they are stimulants, amphetamine-type substances.
Scarnati listed a large number of adverse affects of Ritalin and cited
published journal articles which reported each of these symptoms.
For every one of the following (selected and quoted verbatim) Ritalin
effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical
literature:
* Paranoid delusions
* Paranoid psychosis
* Hypomanic and manic symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
* Activation of psychotic symptoms
* Toxic psychosis
* Visual hallucinations
* Auditory hallucinations
* Can surpass LSD in producing bizarre experiences
* Effects pathological thought processes
* Extreme withdrawal
* Terrified affect
* Started screaming
* Aggressiveness
* Insomnia
* Since Ritalin is considered an amphetamine-type drug, expect amphetamine-like effects
* Psychic dependence
* High-abuse potential DEA Schedule II Drug
* Decreased REM sleep
* When used with antidepressants one may see dangerous reactions including hypertension, seizures and hypothermia
* Convulsions
* Brain damage may be seen with amphetamine abuse.
In what sense are the ADHD drugs "social justice?" The reality is, they
are chemical warfare. Licensed predators are preying on the poor.
You know the old saw, "Children are our future." Yes, well, this means a
future populated by millions of adults who grew up with
government-approved brain-addling drugs and, chances are, they're still
taking them.
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