Say Yes To Drugs You Pay Us For

ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

This is one of my old favorites. The kind that even after it goes rotten and begins it's own pre-apolyptic fermentation on your kitchen table, you just can't seem to get rid of.

But what all do we have in this here ADHD.

• The "disease"
• The drugs

The "Disease"

The disease itself was voted on in 1987 at a Committee meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). They at this committee by a show of hands vote in diseases to their billing book the Diagnostic and Stastical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

Though there is an utter lack of objective proof, millions of children today now take drugs on this pretense.

The Drugs

Let's take one of the cornacopia of drugs available — Ritalin. Ritalin is a common name for methylphenidate, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) classified it as a Schedule II narcotic — the same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines. It's abused for it's stimulant effect and affectionality refered to a Kiddie Cocaine.

Another point that could be lost in the mist would be who.

The use of psychotropic drugs to handle a childs inclination to physical activity or their lack of vigilent attention is not natural phenomena, rather, it is the dementia plans written by someone.

Take for instance James Swanson of the U.S. National Institute for Mental Health. One of the foremost proponents of ADHD as a disease. He addressed a meeting of the American Society of Adolescent Psychiatry, then admitting: “I would like to have an objective diagnosis for the disorder [ADHD]. Right now psychiatric diagnosis is completely subjective....We would like to have biological tests—a dream of psychiatry for many years.”

So Mr. Swanson is guessing wether or not a child has "ADHD." Is this a good enough reason to put a child on psychotropic drugs? Does an itch warrant a morphine prescription?

Does that fit with the fact that in 2000, international sales of antipsychotic drugs reached $6 billion. And iin 2001, antidepressant sales climbed to $12.5 billion. Today, that figure is near $20 billion.

Don't let this one fester on the table, this is a critical bug.