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Posted on 03/07/2010 12:05:10 PM PST by decimon
E. & J. ping.
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Is the /sarc tag necessary here?
Hmmmm. I don’t know what to think about this.
“Why do I find this difficult to believe?”
Probably because you know it is BS.
The drugging of our society is having a long term effect that is becoming more obvious everyday. Just look around at the non-functioning idiots in our society. Our vernacular refers to them as
“democrat voters”.
Cow Patties.
Our son was on this stuff for about 6 months when he was 6. It made no difference in his school work or classroom behavior. We made the decision to home school. That turned him around big time. He's well ahead of his age level now.
So does this mean people will protest the kids in school that get the highest grades if they took ritalin? Kind of like complaining about steroid users in sports.
Yeah, right, great.
This stuff was never approved for children but was dumped on them by the PC crowd trying to make them, especially boys, pliant.
We know three different families whom drugged their boys at an early age and all three, as young men, were turned down by the military because they had taken Ritalin.
Anecdotal I know, but still fact.
Another report trying to defend the indefensible.
Rather than actually parenting and putting forth effort, people want to take the easy way out.
Brain plasticity may not be a good thing. When mammals are young, their brains learn the parameters to reality, which is very important, as our senses pick up vast amounts of data, most of which we ignore, and only a tiny bit is skimmed to form our common mental reality. After a while, these parameters firm up and become permanent.
This means standardized perceptions of size, shape, perspective, color, tone, and what we think of as our ordinary perceptions. Unable to do this, and we are overwhelmed; if we do it incorrectly, at a minimum we have one of the 60 or so varieties of synesthesia, for example, “seeing music as color”.
In the 1970s, the first effective antidepressant was introduced, called “Norpramine” (Desipramine Hydrochloride). We had minimal understanding of neurochemistry at the time, and it was “a shotgun solution to a bb gun problem”.
It also had many severe and common side effects, but because it helped severe depression it became very popular. At its peak of popularity, it was prescribed to over 2 million Americans.
However, after it was approved by the FDA, further testing on it ceased in the US, but was continued in Japan. The Japanese discovered that it increased brain plasticity considerably, softening the parameters of perception, and making it easier for the brain to relearn how to perceive.
To demonstrate how powerful this effect was, the Japanese sewed shut one eyelid of domestic cats, then injected the drug into the optic center of their brains. In just a few weeks, the cats relearned how to see, but with just their open eye. After the stitches were removed, the closed eye still functioned, and still sent signals to the brain, but they were ignored by the cats’ brains.
Compliance is not learning.
I fear it means the schools will push to have every child on Ritalin. Its for their own good ya know (s)
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Soma for the twenty first century. It's a Brave New World.
Some of those parameters of reality being morality, normal behavior in society, and how to interact with other people.
I'm wondering if some of the amorality to the point of psychopathy that we see in some of today's teens are a result of this "plasticity" from Ritalin. How many school shootings and other psychopathic behavior is a result of Ritalin?
Uhm... nothing good can come of this, use of any drug that alters the state of mind is bad as using heroin as an analgesic for children; and would you put this stuff in orange juice or cereal as a vitamin supplement?
But, if one is prone to believe junk science and reason does not solve the problem; would you trust the same people that can not even protect the product/food supply or run a government education system that turns out fuzzy thinking and uneducated children.
How long before some jerk in congress demands to put it in our water, just like another idiot recently demanded to put COQ10 in our drinking water.
It’s difficult for kids to learn in institutions that are full of BS. Kids have good BS detectors. They don’t do well when you set them afloat in a place full of contradictions.
Putting them on speed sure aint the answer.
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