Schoolchildren are increasingly dosed with both Ritalin and Anti-psychotic drugs

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> [sSRI-Research] Schoolchildren are

> increasingly dosed with both Ritalin and

> Anti-psychotic drugs

>

> Schoolchildren are increasingly dosed with both

> Ritalin and Anti-psychotic drugs

>

> http://www.NewsTarget.com/001622.html

>

> Thursday, September 02, 2004 commentary:

>

> Schoolchildren Are Increasingly Dosed With Both

> Ritalin and Anti-Psychotic

> Drugs, Says New Research

>

> Researchers from the Children's Hospital at

> Vanderbilt have found that

> anti-psychotic medications are being prescribed at

> an alarming rate for

> Tennessee children with Attention Deficit

> Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD.

> The use of anti-psychotic drugs has more than

> doubled since 1996, and today

> children are not only being dosed with Ritalin -- a

> powerful narcotic drug

> -- but now anti-psychotic drugs to mask other

> symptoms related to behavioral

> disorders.

>

> Every time I write about this subject, I can't help

> but be outraged at the

> fact that we are a nation dosing our children with

> powerful narcotics in

> order to alter their brain chemistry rather than

> teaching them how to avoid

> the foods that cause these behavioral disorders in

> the first place. We don't

> teach our children how to eat right, nor do we teach

> our parents how to

> teach good dietary habits to their own children.

> Instead, we turn our

> children into literal druggies by forcing them onto

> extremely dangerous

> narcotic and anti-psychotic drugs.

>

> In this nation, there appears to be a drug for every

> problem out there,

> including undesirable behavior on the part of

> children. In reality, ADHD is

> not a behavioral disorder, nor is it some sort of

> mysterious chemical

> imbalance in the brain. It is simply the natural

> effect of pursuing a diet

> that is very high in refined carbohydrates and very

> low in optimum

> nutrition.

>

> This dietary pattern almost perfectly describes the

> pattern pursued by

> virtually all children in the United States. They

> load up on high-sugar

> breakfast cereals, soft drinks, candy bars, sweets,

> cookies, and desserts,

> and then, just in case they don't have enough sugar

> in their system already,

> when they go to school they get rewarded with more

> candy and desserts, and

> they even have the opportunity to purchase soft

> drinks and candy bars from

> vending machines that are actually supported and

> promoted by the school

> bureaucrats.

>

> So on one hand, we have public schools deriving

> funding from the sale of

> soft drinks and candy that promote ADHD in children,

> and then on the other

> hand, instead of addressing this problem at its

> source, we have a

> fast-expanding collection of mental health

> professionals who are

> increasingly putting children on powerful narcotic

> drugs in order to mask

> the symptoms caused by the widespread consumption of

> sugars and processed

> foods.

>

> The victims in all of this are, of course, the

> children themselves, who end

> up being unable to learn as well as they normally

> could, since their brains

> have been dulled by multiple prescription drugs --

> and who end up going

> through the public school system with increased risk

> for obesity, diabetes

> and other diseases promoted by the consumption of

> food ingredients like

> white flour or refined white sugar.

>

> And people wonder why we have such high rates of

> obesity, diabetes, and drug

> dependency in our adult population. It's not mystery

> -- just look at the

> children we're raising in this country. We're

> raising yet another generation

> of drug-addicted, chronically diseased, overweight,

> brain-numbed zombies --

> and proudly declaring it " public education. "

>

> About the author:

>

> Author Mike Adams is a holistic nutritionist with

> over 4,000 hours of study

> on nutrition, wellness, food toxicology and the true

> causes of disease and

> health. He is well versed on nutritional and

> lifestyle therapies for weight

> loss and disease prevention / reversal. View Adams'

> health statistics

> showing LDL cholesterol of 67 and outstanding blood

> chemistry. Adams uses no

> prescription drugs whatsoever and relies exclusively

> on natural health,

> nutrition and exercise to achieve optimum health. He

> serves as the executive

> director of the Consumer Wellness Research Center

> and is author of several

> books about health and nutrition, including Low-Carb

> Diet Warning and

> Superfoods For Optimum Health. In his spare time,

> Adams engages in pilates,

> cycling, strength training, gymnastics and comedy

> improv training. In the

> technology industry, Adams is president and CEO of a

> well known email

> marketing software firm.

>

> Related Reading:

>

> At a time when parents, schools and physicians still

> struggle with the

> perceived overuse of the medication Ritalin to treat

> children with attention

> difficulties, a new study suggests the potential for

> another controversy.

>

> Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt have found a new

> class of antipsychotic

> medications is being prescribed for an increasing

> number of TennCare

> children with attention deficit/hyperactivity

> disorder (ADHD).

>

>

> The study, published in the August Archives of

> Pediatric Adolescent

> Medicine, found that nearly one in 100 adolescent

> TennCare recipients are

> being prescribed powerful antipsychotic medications

> for behavioral problems

> associated with ADHD.

>

> " X Use for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

> (ADHD) and mood

> disorders increased more than twofold.

>

> Perhaps most concerning, the adolescent population

> had more than a

> threefold increase in use of the drugs for

> ASDHD/conduct disorder, that

> amounted to nearly one in every 100 adolescents

> covered under TennCare.

>

> Conrad says RIP promotes the use of behavior

> modification including

> positive reinforcement; techniques she has tried

> with two sons and a

> daughter with ADHD or related conditions.

>

> Cooper says it appears antipsychotic medications are

> targeted to help

> aggressive behavior associated with ADHD.

>

> " In this society, with aggression, they want to nip

> that in the bud, "

> said Conrad.

>

> The drugs were introduced during the 1990s as a new

> generation of

> antipsychotics, and include clozapine, risperidone,

> olanzapine, quetiapine

> fumarate and ziprasidone hydrochloride.

>

> The study's authors eliminated any child listed with

> a severe disability,

> including a severe mental illness like psychosis or

> autism.

>

> " The goal of this article is to encourage physicians

> to carefully

> consider the risk/benefit ratio in their decision

> making about prescribing

> practices for the new generation of antipsychotics.

>

> Source:

>

>

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/08/040803100442.htm

>

http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/newspub/crmQtG?id=13351

>

>

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>

>

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>

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>

 

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