WOULD YOU GIVE YOUR CHILD COCAINE?

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This says it best:

 

 

Would You Give Your Child Cocaine?

by John Carey, June 02, 2006

 

While unfunded individuals and grass-roots groups are screaming at

the top of their lungs about psychiatrists drugging our children

based on made-up diseases, drug companies run hourly television ads

to spread the false message of chemical imbalances. That no blood is

ever drawn to prove this imbalance and that no normal child has

Ritalin or Prozac coursing through their veins hasn't stopped this

catch-phrase from becoming our version of the flat-earth concept

widely accepted 400 years ago.

 

While teachers and psychiatrists are paired up to push drugs

to " help " schoolchildren study, we also have TeenScreen partnering

with psychiatrists coming in on the child suicide angle. Behind both

groups are money-hungry billion dollar drug companies. It doesn't

matter that TeenScreen identifies eighty-four non-suicidal teens for

evaluation for every sixteen it correctly identifies (that's just

more money for the psychiatric profession when they prescribe the

drugs).

 

For today however, let's not even argue against this fabricated

disease (Attention Deficit Disorder) or this sensationalistic worry

about suicide (children are six times more likely to die in

automobile accidents), but instead let's take a stroll through the

KNOWN side-effects of one drug which psychiatrists happily prescribe

to millions.

 

Ritalin

 

Ritalin, Vitamin R, the Smart Pill, Kiddie Cocaine – are all names

for the pill that drug-company Novartis has made famous and is in the

same category as cocaine, opium, and morphine. (NOTE : Other Schedule

II stimulants used to treat ADD are Concerta and Adderall and their

side-effects shows striking resemblance.)

 

Will Ritalin improve your child's grades? If Ritalin could do this,

don't you think that Novartis would announce this to the world? The

vast majority of children on Ritalin have either NO improvement or

their actual achievement scores deteriorate. In The Learning

Mystique, Gerald Coles confirms a 1978 review of seventeen studies

and they all agree: " stimulant drugs have little, if any, impact on…

long-term academic improvement. " A large percentage of these children

become robotic, lethargic or depressed.

 

What about fitting in to society? Studies prove that children on

psychiatric stimulants for ADHD are 46% more likely to commit one

felony, and 36% more likely to commit two or more felonies.

 

Does it make you kill? According to the American Psychiatric

Association, SUICIDE is the major adverse reaction of Ritalin

withdrawal. Suicides and attempted suicides only occur in three cases

though: when stopping usage completely, when reducing the dosage or

when continuing with the same dosage!

 

Besides suicides, the list of school shootings and family homicides

by Ritalin and Prozac kids is staggering. We all know of people who

do things while drunk that they don't do when sober, so why are we

surprised when we give a child a daily dose of a Class II stimulant

and he does something terrible?

 

How about impact on the body? Heart problems, blood disorders, brain

damage, facial tics and death are just some of the side-effects too

numerous to mention. From 1990-2000, 186 died from the use of these

drugs, but because the FDA has a voluntary reporting scheme, it is

estimated that this represents only 10-20% of the actual cases.

 

However, one side-effect stands out even more: " Ritalin can mutate

the child by not allowing the child to grow to full size. "

Sociologists have traced everything from sexual selection of mates to

job-hiring based on height; so how permanently disfiguring is this?

The literature suggests giving your child holidays from Ritalin to

counter this, but children's bodies and glands operate twenty-four

hours a day, not just during holidays!

 

How about addiction? Novartis will claim that Ritalin isn't

addictive. However, in a study of 5,000 children with ADHD who were

followed from adolescence to adulthood, psycho-pharmacologist Susan

Schenk of Texas A & M University concluded that children treated with

Ritalin are three times more likely to develop a taste for cocaine.

In British Columbia in the late 1980's, when heroin addicts shifted

to Ritalin, the burglary rate increased 105% because while a heroin

addict will inject two to three times a day, a Ritalin addict shoots

up every two hours.

 

Are there any long-term mental effects? Medical researchers in the

Psychology and Pharmacology fields, Travis Thompson, Ph.D.,

University of Minnesota and Klaus R. Unna, M.D., University of

Illinois say: " Perhaps the best-known effect of chronic stimulant

administration is psychosis.

Psychosis has been associated with chronic use of several stimulants;

e.g., amphetamines, Methylphenidate (RITALIN), phenmetrazine and

cocaine. " (So the child patient of psychiatry is now manufactured

into the adult patient of psychiatry!) There is also evidence that

Ritalin can cause shrinkage or other permanent physical abnormalities

in the brain.

 

Does this affect our society? How many future Beethovens, Thomas

Jeffersons, Ernest Hemingways, Martin Luther Kings and Maya Angelous

are we currently drugging into stupors in our schools and nation? Men

and women of greatness are probably the least likely to sit still and

do the normal schoolwork directed at the average student. How many

non-drugged kids would have never become famous, but would have been

able to hold a job at Wal-Mart, get married, have kids, go bowling,

collect the next Beanie Babies, attend church, and enjoy life but are

now doomed to become drug addicts, felons, and just plain psychotic?

 

We all want smart children, but this isn't Lake Woebegone. In any

school half of our children will be below average! We can still brag

on our child's size, their musical ability, their athletic prowess,

or their ability to fix cars or computers. But not a single parent

ever brags about their child being a drug-addict! Think about that

before you allow your child anywhere near a psychiatrist.

 

After this short stroll down the long littered highway of Ritalin

side-effects, just in case none of the above is enough to keep you

from forcing a daily fix of a drug in the same class as cocaine down

your child's throat, maybe this point of ironic justice will: In one

group of Ritalin kids studied, thirty-four percent threatened to kill

their parents.

 

Is there any greater threat to children, parents and society at large

today than psychiatry, their false labeling and fraudulent

treatments?

 

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John Carey john_carey_2-45 has degrees in Chemical

Engineering and Computer Science from Texas A & M, and has worked for a

major oil company for over 20 years. As a humanitarian endeavor, he

has researched extensively on the psychiatric drugging of children.

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" Disease does not occur unexpectedly. It is the result of constant

violation of Nature's laws. Spreading and accumulation of such

violations transpire suddenly in the form of a disease - but it only

seems sudden. " ~Hippocrates~