Posted on 02/26/2025 8:43:58 AM PST by Red Badger
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.
ADHD drugs like Adderall aren’t the issue. If a kid misses his Adderall dose, they give them caffeine which mimics Adderall.
SSRI’s and benzos are the real issue. That’s why kid are shooting up schools.
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.
Todd Rundgren once produced 3 albums in 15 months, one on which he played all instruments, and which produced 2 top 10 hits. He said he was able to do it with a combo of Ritalin and cannabis. He was 100% locked in the "zone" all day long. So hopefully RFK won't ban them. They just need to stop allowing fake ADHD diagnoses and MDs handing them out like candy, at crazy high doses. The dose I took was the lowest which I had cut in half.
Back in the day, 50 years ago, I got spankings and it straightened me out, for a while. As I got older, I learned to handle it. I still have issues reading something that does not interest me.
They medicate active boys because they don’t want to expend the effort to deal with them.
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Bingo, and the schools don’t have three recesses anymore like we did when we were kids.
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.
Have you ever seen a hyperactive adult? I am 71 and have known 2 in my life that I can recall.
Adderal and Vivance go for big bucks on the street. I watch family court cases a lot and when sent to drug test, many parents are on these drugs. They have a prescription, so are deemed clean. Legal junkies. Take away their scripts and they will find meth or heroin to replace it.
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.
“Doctors dealing drugs that will never cure your ills”
Bob Dylan-”When You Gonna Wake Up”.
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.
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