[To-Whose-Benefit?]

I’m so damn tired of seeing this crap called “medication”. There’s nothing remotely medical about ADHD. It’s a sales pitch invented by the makers to peddle the stuff.

The perceived benefit to kids only lasts about 3 years and then they’re burnt by it for life.

The study I want to see done is in the prisons to find out how many inmates were prescribed this stuff as kids. Inner City kids get hammered left and right with all kinds of behavioral drugs, and then we get this epidemic of black males in those cities having run ins with the law.

The problem goes beyond creating a culture of dependancy through Government handouts, but we’re still paying people to try to hang it on Social Darwinist genetics, and that one’s a complete pile too.

http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/GeneWatch/GeneWatchPage.aspx?pageId=384

Call the stuff what it. Pharmaceutical bathtub speed.

[mmichaels1970]

I’m so damn tired of seeing this crap called “medication”. There’s nothing remotely medical about ADHD.

Debate all you want about whether kids should get the medication. I can assure you however, that ADHD is very real. And I consider mental illness to be very medical. The worry, care, and frustration that accompanies having a child with ADHD/ODD encompasses almost every waking moment of every day for a parent.

I am a parent of an ADHD/ODD child and three "normal" (at least non-ADHD) kids. I once considered myself a huge skeptic of the entire idea. I was wrong. I was very wrong.