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The Drugging Of The American Boy
Esquire ^ | March 27, 2014 | Ryan D'Agostino

Posted on 04/22/2014 9:24:11 PM PDT by rickmichaels

By the time they reach high school, nearly 20 percent of all American boys will be diagnosed with ADHD. Millions of those boys will be prescribed a powerful stimulant to "normalize" them. A great many of those boys will suffer serious side effects from those drugs. The shocking truth is that many of those diagnoses are wrong, and that most of those boys are being drugged for no good reason—simply for being boys. It's time we recognize this as a crisis.

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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: adhd; druggingchildren; psychotropics; rxdrugs
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To: doc1019

OMG, doc, how 1950’s of you! ;)

I heard on the radio last week they now have a new “abc” disorder...for day dreaming and mind wandering. I’m doomed, I’m afraid.


21 posted on 04/22/2014 10:12:16 PM PDT by berdie
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To: dr_lew

Yes, condition would have been a better choice of words.


22 posted on 04/22/2014 10:12:44 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: berdie

If we would let kids be kids the world would right itself.


23 posted on 04/22/2014 10:14:19 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: doc1019

Amen.


24 posted on 04/22/2014 10:21:55 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: ConservativeStatement

Geezopeetzo - I do feel sorry for this woman’s child - they better stay in New York with others of their own kind (crazy, that is)


25 posted on 04/22/2014 10:27:09 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: doc1019

100% agree - I would not under any circumstances have a child in govt. schools today.


26 posted on 04/22/2014 10:31:08 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: dr_lew

The “Snow is Black” was mentioned by Bertrand Russell, who was quoting Fichte. The Wundtian connection (Father of Psychology) is part of this whole “Germanization” and drugging of Americans, and the kids-—which is to treat every character issue as a “disease” and drug everyone. (Getting rid of Christian Ethics). (Soma World). (Leipzig Connection is free online.)

Wundt taught G. Stanley Hall who was the mentor of John Dewey, who believed in conditioning (socializing) children into moral relativism.

Prior to John Dewey we had Classical Education (Objective Truth) in public schools although we had the start of the “Prussian” system, but which included the Bible and we believed the primary purpose of education (since Socrates) was to instill Virtue (Excellence).

Dewey destroyed that concept-—the purpose was “socialization”-—and forming “group think” into socialism/godlessness and destroying Christian Worldview. (God is Dead Postmodernists took over the schools with John Dewey) with the help of all the Foundations, which bought off the media, leading newspapers, and publishing companies, and universities, and teachers colleges, etc.

https://archive.org/details/scientificoutloo030217mbp

http://www.whale.to/b/russell_h.html


27 posted on 04/22/2014 10:44:41 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: willywill

Let’s not leave out the pushing of the homosexual agenda on children.


28 posted on 04/22/2014 10:48:04 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
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To: doc1019

Love it.. you did just the right thing. There was a time when this was the normal course for families and now they push an alternative reality with drugs.


29 posted on 04/22/2014 10:52:59 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: doc1019
And then soon they will be introduced to cheap, legal pot ...

Only if the parents are too lazy to do their jobs.

30 posted on 04/22/2014 10:55:05 PM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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31 posted on 04/22/2014 10:55:14 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: savagesusie

Thank you... shared this on my FB page.


32 posted on 04/22/2014 10:55:41 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: liberty or death

AGREE!!!!!


33 posted on 04/22/2014 10:56:35 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: dr_lew

Russell, Bertrand. “Impact of Science on Society,” pg. 52, 1953. ISBN 13: 978-0-415-10906-2


34 posted on 04/22/2014 11:00:23 PM PDT by leakinInTheBlueSea
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To: dr_lew

LOL....


35 posted on 04/22/2014 11:14:48 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: doc1019

As someone who straddles the boundaries of the Gen-X/Millenial divide (Born in ‘79) I could only look on in astonishment and horror at the generation that came after me and see these hordes of androgynous emo freaks and I asked myself what is the cause? Now I know.


36 posted on 04/22/2014 11:17:40 PM PDT by JPX2011
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To: savagesusie

I don’t even know what is going on here, but I find an overlapping quote, if you will, from BR’s SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:

“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.” – p62

... so where would you suppose the sentiments of BR himself lie on this issue?


37 posted on 04/22/2014 11:28:11 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: willywill
‘.to crush the influence of the white Christian male in our culture.’

Very good, the duck comes down and gives you $50. You have articulated the goal of the political and cultural class, crush European Judeo-Christian culture and effectively terrorize and marginalize white middle class Americans by changing the racial composition through endless waves of illegals committing acts of love, just so long as they have dark skins and come from a culture resistant to the values and mores of Whitey.

38 posted on 04/22/2014 11:34:02 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: savagesusie; All
‘Dewey destroyed that concept-’
Dewey hated normal, straight American culture and conducted a life long vendetta against it disguised as ‘educational reform’. How many Dewy like trolls are at work in government and at universities undermining what is left of Judeo-Christian culture.
39 posted on 04/22/2014 11:37:18 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: liberty or death

Sounds like the wench, er, ah, wife has problems.


40 posted on 04/23/2014 1:00:05 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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