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richard
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ADD / ADHD
February 2, 2005 - 03:26 AM
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Every one that I've ever met who's been prescribed medicine for ADD or ADHD has never shown the ability to concentrate better, get better grades, or communicate better after being medicated ! In fact they have all seemed to rapidly regress in these areas ! It appears now that their medicating children that have no signs of hyperactivity with the same medicine that their treating children with hyperactivity. The physical and mental anxiety from the medication is constantly apparent in both principals !
I don't think that medicating children with vast amounts of mind and health degenerating drugs is the answer to America's future. America currently leads the world with the percentage of mental disorders which is currently at 26 percent of the U. S. population.
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1. ADD and ADHD has no bases in physical science and is a disease of opinion or profit.
2. Ritalin is more potent and addicting than cocaine.
3. Children are diagnosed that have never had any signs of hyperactivity.
4. Ritalin alters/damages/changes the brain.
5. Psychotropic drugs are damaging to your health.
6. People being treated for ADHD can die , get brain damage and have suicidal feelings.
7. Ritlain causes pychosis, depression, dizziness,insomnia,nervousness,irratability,and attacks of tourette's or tic syndrome.
8. Their is a cause and effect relationship between violience and psychotropic drugs.
9. Ritalin has strong effects on serotonin levels on the brain.
10. SSRI's can create mania and psychotic episodes.
11. In his book, Ritalin Nation, Richard DeGrandpre, Ph.D., states, “One study, reported in the journal Pediatrics, found that 80% of the children thought to be hyperactive, according to home and school reports, showed ‘exemplary behavior and no sign of hyperactivity in the office.’ This finding is consistent with numerous studies showing, and dozens of newspaper articles reporting, considerable disagreement among parents, teachers, and clinicians about who qualifies for a diagnosis. This can only raise questions about the existence of ADD as a real medical phenomenon since it is these symptoms alone that are the basis of the diagnosis.”
I want to take a minute and point out how ridiclious this has become !
A report in the July 1998 issue of the Clinical Psychiatric News revealed that in Michigan's Medicaid program, 223 children 3 years old or younger were diagnosed with ADHD as of December 1996. Amazingly, 57 percent of these children, many of whom are not yet capable of putting together a complete sentence, were treated with one or more psychotropic drugs including Ritalin, Prozac, Dexedrine, Aventyl and Syban. Thirty-three percent were medicated with two or more of these drugs.
http://www.cchr.org/topics/family/adhd/index.htm
Between 1950 and 1964, more people died in United States federal, state and county psychiatric hospitals than the number of Americans killed in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf War combined. In fact, between 1950 and 1990, the total number of psychiatric inpatient deaths exceeded the same cumulative number of war casualties by at least 70%.
http://www.cchr.org/failure/eng/page30.htm
Publication on Psychiatry and Children !
http://www.cchr.org/children/eng/index.htm
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Ben
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Re: ADD / ADHD
February 2, 2005 - 07:26 AM
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Here in Australia there has been a big movement in the treatment of ADD with all natural products and learning programs (so drug free) the site with info on it is below, and from teh news i have seen ti works better than any drug programme, however because it falls under "natural medicene" it carries a abd stigma with it, and only recently is that stigma being lifted on other herbal and natural remedies.
http://www.dore.com.au/content/science.html
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Brian
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February 2, 2005 - 10:55 AM
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Good post! I have felt the same about ADD for a long time. It's just wrong to pump kids full of powerful drugs that we don't fully know the effects of.
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Brian
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February 2, 2005 - 11:06 AM
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Good post! I have felt the same about ADD for a long time. It's just wrong to pump kids full of powerful drugs that we don't fully know the effects of.
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Kerr
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Re: ADD / ADHD
March 5, 2005 - 06:37 AM
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That was a very good post.
I just wanted to say I agree with what you said. I feel like people are being miss diagnosied all the time in Canada.
I had a really close friend of mine who was in his late 20's get diagnosed with AD(H)D, when he asked the doctor if he could use other methods of "focusing", the doctor told him that the medication is the only rite way.
Interestingly enough the specialist he visited was funded by a pharmacutical company.
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