[wagglebee]

If Ritalin is so bad, why is it being used on schoolchildren? The sad fact is that our public schools and parents have been duped by the psychiatric and drug industries. “A quintessential truth was unearthed about the educational experience children encounter today,” write Thomas G. Whittle and Linda Amato in Freedom magazine (Spring 2004). “Psychotropic drug makers, parasitic on the school system, have created a lucrative market for their own enrichment by ‘pathologizing’ childhood behavior as mental disorders, with pseudo medical labels obediently supplied by the very psychiatrists who prosper from this corrupt arrangement.”

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.

[rogueleader]

Yes.

http://www.ritalindeath.com

[widowithfoursons]

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.

[widowithfoursons]

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.

[bvw]

Why do foxes seek out chicken farms?

[AQGeiger]

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.

[Lizavetta]

No one's willing to admit that the emperor has no clothes...that most of today's 'ADHD' cases are in fact bratty behavior redefined as a medical condition.

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.

[tubebender]

Teachers Parents (many not all) today would rather sedate their students children 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.

Is that better...

[steplock]

This year, approximately six million children—roughly one out of every eight—will take Ritalin .....

let's clarify this a bit more .... when you take SEX into account here that would make it ...

25% of male children being drugged!

[Dacus943]

"Methylphenidate, a schedule 2 substance, has a high potential for abuse and produces the same effects as cocaine or the amphetamines."

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!!!

[Cicero]

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.

[nmh]

Ritalin Nation: Are We Killing Our Children?

Yes by choice.

There is no reason to put kids on drugs like that.

[Essie]

In my opinion, I think that the widespread use of Ritalin has more to do with overbooked parents and teachers than with problem kids. Because both parents often work and there is so little wiggle room in their schedules, anything that causes a disruption is a problem. Children are in school for longer times with less activity. From the minute a child enters school, he or she is supposed to sit down, shut up, and fill in the blanks. The parents panic and want a quick fix when the child doesn't behave as he/she is supposed to. Many teachers are also overbooked parents. Any child that doesn't fit in right away must be a problem which needs a quick and permanent solution. It is much easier to say that the problem is with the child than the parent or the school.
Sadly, I know many overbooked conservatives that just want the quick fix for their children. They don't have the time or patience to look beyond what is convenient.

[Nick Danger]

The "big bad drug companies" model does not explain the sexual disparity in the prescribing of these drugs. Were this phenomenon profit-motivated, we would expect to see equal numbers of boys and girls being urged to take such medication.

That's not what we see. What we see is an education system selectively drugging male children, quite often the brightest ones. Drug companies will obviously rush to make a buck given an opportunity to do so, but it is doubtful that they are where the impetus for this is coming from.

There are many other measures taken by our education system to make schools hostile or unproductive for male children. The drugging is just one aspect of it. It may well be the worst. But when we have gotten rid of the drugs, we will not have solved the problem that was causing the drugging.

There is some very serious social engineering going on in the schools. People need to get a lot smarter about it. Going off half-cocked about doctors and drug companies is pointing people in the wrong direction. The problem is the people who are teaching the teachers... who they are, and what their agenda is. If you have a son in school, pay very close attention to what they are doing to his head. They do not mean him well.

[Indie]

The drug companies are also making a fortune off of new Rx drugs, many of which are much more dangerous than good old fashioned codeine [paragoric] for things like coughing and diarrhea, even in children. Even simple aspirin has been villified for a rare syndrome which occurs far less frequently than the number of overdose deaths from Tylenol.
[I guess they couldn't make enough money off of aspirin]

Nothing happens by chance. Follow the money. That is what the WOD is about as well.

http://www.leap.cc

[Taliesan]

Children who aren't taught to focus on a task between the ages of 1 and 3 won't be able to focus at age 7.

[booann777]

Hi.. I've posted on these threads before so let me summarize:

Ritilin is NOT the only medicine used for ADD/ADHD... anti-seizure (not amphetamines) are commonly used, and Wellbutrin is prescribed also, together or not.

ADD/ADHD is oftentimes over diagnosed, as are many aliments. It takes the keen eye of a "shrink" NOT A TEACHER, evaluate the situation.

Nay sayers of ADHD/ADD are uninformed. Child rearing has LITTLE to do with this disrupting (at best) disorder. Parents with kids that are afflicted cannot just raise their kids in a "normal" way. How about "Torrets" (sp) syndrome, also an involuntary disorder. Would you blame the parents and wonder why they just can't make the child quit saying bad words and having other symptoms? "What on earth is wrong with these parents? Lazy and not willing give enough attention?"

ADHD/ADD students cannot be taught in a "normal" way. They do need attention at home and special learning techniques at school (more active, less rote.)

These kids are hard to handle, immature, have little impulse control, are often compulsive, depressed, etc. Many have legal problems due to their lack of impulse control. Part of the depression comes from stigma attached by teacher and parents that they are lazy. In fact, ADHD/ADD people (adults too) have more than average intelligence. Their brain "sparks" differently than "normal" kids, raised only by "good parents"...

Of course I refer to "real' cases of the disorder, not school/teacher mandated. If the child is a real disruptor, there are many private schools, or even home schooling as an option.

my two cents... ba7 (ok... ten cents!!)

[IrishCatholic]

Bump for later.

[petercooper]

Since ADHD hit the mainstream in the 1980s, prescriptions for Ritalin have skyrocketed.

This sentence needs to be reworded: Since Ritalin was invented in the 1980's, and b/c schools receive alot more funding for "disabled" kids, ADHD cases have skyrocketed.