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RFK Jr. targets childhood psychiatric drugs; doctors push back
The Hill ^ | February 26, 2025 | Joseph Choi

Posted on 02/26/2025 8:43:58 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

The article makes it sound like the doctor pushback is unique or unusual. Any time HHS does anything, you’ll have pushback from one group or another. That’s the way it works.


21 posted on 02/26/2025 9:31:31 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: montag813

Chances are you will get the same effect from sativa aka cleaning weed as opposed to indica aka sleeping weed. My wife even takes delta 9 cbd for sleep and hip pain. I have no idea how it works. She bought a delta 9 smoothie and the next day, the hip pain was gone. The problem is that I can buy THC-A here but not delta 9. The law here makes no sense.


22 posted on 02/26/2025 9:59:25 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: bk1000

Adderall doesn’t cure behavior. It helps you to focus. It’s basically a stimulant. I knew accountants who were coffee junkies for the same reason.


23 posted on 02/26/2025 10:02:45 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: AppyPappy
Chances are you will get the same effect from sativa aka cleaning weed as opposed to indica aka sleeping weed.

Very true. Has to be sativa.

24 posted on 02/26/2025 10:13:26 AM PST by montag813
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To: Red Badger

I am under the impression that no small number of school shooters had been prescribed psychotropic drugs.


25 posted on 02/26/2025 11:01:29 AM PST by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Williams

Just my opinion that in many cases the ADHD drugs are BS and in some cases quite dangerous.


Well, they work wonders for me. They allow me to calm down and listen more carefully to the voices in my head. Today they told me to “stay home from work and clean the guns”.

(The quoted part is from my all time favorite bumper sticker.)


26 posted on 02/26/2025 11:03:37 AM PST by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Red Badger

Before he starts pulling meds, perhaps he ought to get rid of suspicious dyes, preservatives, and high fructose corn syrup. If he and others are correct in saying these items are responsible for ADHD and other psych diagnoses, then the need for these meds should diminish. Kids with cell phone addictions are a separate problem which can only be solved by parents.


27 posted on 02/26/2025 11:04:05 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Red Badger

The drugs ARE addictive. They are also the primary cause of child suicide. Child suicide was unheard of until the shrinks began pushing these drugs on our youths.


28 posted on 02/26/2025 11:05:33 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: joe fonebone

I’m with you on that. Frankly, I’d like them to take the perspective that the government had in the 60’s regarding seat belts and smoking. i.e. education through PSA’s, etc., rather than violating rights. Of course, that didn’t last long...๐Ÿคฃ


29 posted on 02/26/2025 11:05:35 AM PST by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Red Badger

We start shoving drugs down children’s throats before they even start school and then we wonder why we have a drug problem.

The Sackler family approves.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9339402/


30 posted on 02/26/2025 11:06:12 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ. FJB.)
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To: montag813

There were two brothers who drove 18 wheel trucks, long haul.

They lived in North Carolina back in the 80s.

They would take amphetamines and do two California turnarounds at one time (Wilmington to LA and back, twice).

They earned enough money to buy a two story old home to remodel.

They were up for an entire week on amphetamines remodeling and decided to make the downstairs one big room. As soon as they cut out all the walls the house started to creek, they got out, and it collapsed in on itself.

That’s my amphetamine story.


31 posted on 02/26/2025 11:07:09 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Red Badger

I watch the court cases at this website

https://www.youtube.com/@LoneWolfUsul/videos

I observe that a high percent of the defendants have a drug addiction problem. And Meth seems to be their illicit drug of choice.

So does anyone besides me want to see the statistics on kids who took Adderall are now Meth addicts as adults.


32 posted on 02/26/2025 11:08:27 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Red Badger

When we lived in Polk County, FL in the 90s I had occasion to learn that the county schools had over ๐Ÿฎ,๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐˜€, ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€, ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—”๐——๐—›๐—— ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ด๐˜€. I also learned of the “streamlined” process used to get them on the drugs. BS. Also, threats of bringing in child protection services if parents refused to knuckle under. Just another reason our kid got home schooled.

FASCISTS


33 posted on 02/26/2025 11:10:07 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: Red Badger
Just publicizing the connection between psychiatric drugs and school shootings and suicides would be a huge step in the right direction. Followed by steep liability judgements against the pharmaceutical industry pushing these poisons and the psychiatric mafia prescribing them.

They have tried to go after the gun manufacturers. I think it makes more sense to go after those who create and hand out the drugs that lead kids to pull triggers.

34 posted on 02/26/2025 11:10:48 AM PST by katana
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To: cuban leaf

All of them. All adult mass shooters too.


35 posted on 02/26/2025 11:13:44 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: katana

The problem is establishing causality for drugs taken by a huge spectrum of Americans that donโ€™t shoot up schools.


36 posted on 02/26/2025 11:15:09 AM PST by erlayman (E )
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Back when my daughter was in about 3rd grade, 1994 or so, we were called in for a ‘conference’ with a ‘counselor’.

The gist of the meeting:

We need to put your daughter on some drugs to calm her down in class.

My immediate reaction:

HOW ABOUT I THROW YOUR ASS OUT THAT WINDOW RIGHT BEHIND YOU?

End of meeting.

No drugs.

Daughter is 38 years old and a professional..........


37 posted on 02/26/2025 11:16:43 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

The researchers noted that โ€œmore than half of the children in the United States with a treatable mental health disorder do not receive treatment from a mental health professional.โ€

Oh. How would they know this? They just make these numbers up.

If psych drugs help then it would be logical that people on these drugs would be less likely to shoot their coworkers. Yet every shooter is on these drugs. Shrinks claim that half of people who are mentally ill don’t get the treatment they need. So why are all shooters getting treatment?

The treatments cause this carnage. The psychologists and psychiatrists are full aware of this. Increased violence allows these frauds to lobby for more mental health funding. The result is always more violence, not less.


38 posted on 02/26/2025 11:20:45 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Resolute Conservative
As I got older, I learned to handle it. I still have issues reading something that does not interest me.

I LOVE to read and have issues reading something that does not interest me.

That's not a sign of ADD or ADHD or anything else.

It's a normal human reaction to reading something that bores you out of your mind.

39 posted on 02/26/2025 11:26:19 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, โ€œSurely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Nextrush

Apparently, his solution is to feed them better and let them play outside and burn it off.

I wonder if anyone has ever done a study on the numbers of kids who live in the country and live and work on farms being on these drugs compared to city kids who live with their hands glued to electronics 90% of their waking hours.


40 posted on 02/26/2025 11:28:56 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, โ€œSurely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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