Just my opinion that in many cases the ADHD drugs are BS and in some cases quite dangerous.
Excellent.
Also, looking forward to RFKjr and his agency addressing fluoride in public water supplies. It violates informed consent. It is an uncontrolled dosage delivery system - too much for kids, and not needed at all for those with dentures/no teeth. Utah is banning it statewide now, with provisions for pharmacy sales of fluoride pills - which DOES align with informed consent.
“and has falsely linked them to school shootings.”
They can take their article and shove it.
Child misbehavior can only be corrected by pills. Hell No!
Children have to be forced to behave. They’ll learn the life lessons they’ll need.
HOORAY RFK Jr.!
They medicate active boys because they don’t want to expend the effort to deal with them. None of these kids are actually suffering from a hyperactive disorder. Have you ever seen a truly hyperactive child? I have. They are very different from a bored figidity kid. All these drugs should be reclassified, and there should be strict oversight of their use. These drugs lie at the very feet of school shootings, which never happened before this nonsense.
Don't look me in the eye when I speak...you're autistic...therapy will cure you.
The spectrums are stretched so far...normal is in the minority...and that simply can not be!!
Adderall is addictive, I can’t tell you how many divorces I have done where one of the parents is addicted.
While I agree, in principle, what he is trying to do, I have a very big problem with the government getting between me and my doctor...for any reason
I trust Kennedy on this one.
RFK Jr. is against drugging children good for him bad for Pharma and the Medical Industrial Complex.
And great for our children and grandchildren do we want them to be drugged out of reality starting at an early age.
These probs are overdiagnosed.
This started in the early 90s when they forced insurance companies to pay for psychiatric care.
What soon followed was an explosion of ADHD and autism spectrum diagnoses, mostly from public school “health professionals”.
What soon followed after that were school shootings, beginning with Columbine. I think both of those guys were on ADHD drugs.
Actually I don’t think attacking the drug is warranted.
Attacking the corruption of “education” that pays to have more “disabled” children in its ranks is needed.
See how much quagmire there is? It’s not simply about 1 item. It’s about a tangled network of departments, etc.
Really, the gov needs to stop handing money for more kids who are diagnosed “ADD “ or anything else. The schools encourage this by recommending a child be evaluated and they hope for that Dx. Many psychs might be getting kick-backs from Ed to say kids are sick,
It’s an entire sick system.
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.
I am under the impression that no small number of school shooters had been prescribed psychotropic drugs.
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.
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.
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/
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.
When we lived in Polk County, FL in the 90s I had occasion to learn that the county schools had over 𝟮,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗸𝗶𝗱𝘀, 𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗗𝗛𝗗 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴𝘀. 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