Posted on 06/15/2004 6:05:13 PM PDT by wagglebee
Teachers (many not all) today would rather sedate their students and the drug companies are making a fortune as a result. The problem is that ADHD is really just kids not being disciplined properly, so they are given drugs that can really screw them up or even kill them.
Wait a minute. These kids are all potential chad voters. This getting rid of drugging the next generation must be stopped! Each child has the right to become incapacitated at an early age. Let's just quit parenting, and let Hillary have her village.
Wait a minute. These kids are all potential chad voters. This getting rid of drugging the next generation must be stopped! Each child has the right to become incapacitated at an early age. Let's just quit parenting, and let Hillary have her village.
Why do foxes seek out chicken farms?
The "hyperactivity" displayed by many children nowadays is due to behavioral troubles, not chemical imbalances. When children are ignored at home, they act out in order to try to get some attention. The teachers and parents who don't want to deal with paying attention to what is truly wrong are all too happy to drug these kids into more docile behavior.
Teachers love it cause they can get the pain in the ass students sedated. Parents love it because they can blame their kids' brattiness on a health disorder rather than their own neglectful absentee parenting. Pharmaceuticals love it cause they're raking in the dough and creating a zillion present and future customers.
There's a doctor at www.adhdfraud.com who's trying to get the word out.
Is that better...
I wonder too, how much is due to the massive amounts of caffeine kids ingest. Cokes, candy, etc are eaten much much more than when I was a kid in the 1960's.
Kids' bodies are much more sensitive to stuff like that than adults.
When I was a kid you MIGHT get to buy a Coke on Saturday and MAYBE a chocolate bar. No cases of ADHD in my school. Nowadays, they're drinking the stuff constantly (not my kids, though).
Plus, every time you turn around they're being given candy. After soccer games, birthday parties (when did it become standard to send kids home with "goodie bags"?), at parades (when I was a kid, only Santa threw out a few peppermint candies, now every float in the parade dumps tons of candy at kids)
*nods in agreement* I have a 7 yr old high functioning autistic son and I get asked a lot what medicines he is currently taking, which is NONE. Behavior modification is the key for kids like my son JJ (see profile for obligatory show off picture *s*)
I would like to put forth a different view... one in which a parent has a cocaine addiction. This parent allows\forces the child to be put on Ritalin in order to get the drug for THEIR USE!!!
It's a very serious problem indeed. But as Tonto said to the Lone Ranger, "Who is this 'we,' White Man?" I suspect that if you looked into it you'd find that the great majority of parents who have been persuaded to use these dangerous drugs on their children are probably liberals.
Why? In the first place, because behavioral problems in modern children are largely a result of listening to Dr. Spock and not giving them any discipline. In the second place, because liberals tend to turn to these sorts of easy solutions more easily than conservatives. It wasn't conservatives who flocked to LSD and "tuned in, turned off, dropped out" back in the 60s.
Ritalin Nation: Are We Killing Our Children?
Yes by choice.
There is no reason to put kids on drugs like that.
"The "hyperactivity" displayed by many children nowadays is due to behavioral troubles, not chemical imbalances. When children are ignored at home, they act out in order to try to get some attention. The teachers and parents who don't want to deal with paying attention to what is truly wrong are all too happy to drug these kids into more docile behavior."
Absolutely right! Looking for attention for all the worng reasons and ways.
Parents love the drugs because the kids will be docile and teachers love it for the same reason. Too bad no one really cares about the child.
Our son is severely autistic, and 11 years old. It horrified me when we were first finding out about autism, that when he was 4, 5, 6 years old, to different "psychiatrists" wanted to dope him up on PROZAC! One "doctor" tried to prescribe it before she had even EXAMINED my son. They had no studies to show that (a) a powerful psychotropic drug like Prozac wouldn't be harmful to my small child, or (b) that Prozac actually helps autistic children. We told them both where they can stuff their medicine.
Don't let anybody tell me that doctors arn't trying to overmedicate the population.
should read: "two different psychiatrists"
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