This is not a new trend, but it is now going parabolic into a new and very disturbing phase. In a New York Times article from this morning, we meet Dr. Michael Anderson, who makes no bones about prescribing prescription drugs to children, not because they have a specific disorder, but in order to make up for a failing education system. From the lips of Dr. Anderson:
“I don’t have a whole lot of choice,” said Dr. Anderson, a pediatrician for many poor families in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta. “We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.”
The article continues:
The disorder (ADHD), which is characterized by severe inattention and impulsivity, is an increasingly common psychiatric diagnosis among American youth: about 9.5 percent of Americans ages 4 to 17 were judged to have it in 2007, or about 5.4 million children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to guidelines published last year by the American Academy of Pediatrics, physicians should use one of several behavior rating scales, some of which feature dozens of categories, to make sure that a child not only fits criteria for A.D.H.D., but also has no related condition like dyslexia or oppositional defiant disorder, in which intense anger is directed toward authority figures. However, a 2010 study in the Journal of Attention Disorders suggested that at least 20 percent of doctors said they did not follow this protocol when making their A.D.H.D. diagnoses, with many of them following personal instinct.
“To help me focus on my school work, my homework, listening to Mom and Dad, and not doing what I used to do to my teachers, to make them mad,” he said. He described the week in the hospital and the effects of Risperdal: “If I don’t take my medicine I’d be having attitudes. I’d be disrespecting my parents. I wouldn’t be like this.”
The superintendent of one major school district in California, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, noted that diagnosis rates of A.D.H.D. have risen as sharply as school funding has declined.
This is tragic on so many levels. So let me get this straight. We can’t find the money to support schools, but tens of trillions in banker bailouts appear out of thin air with the snap of Ben Bernanke’s fingers? Think about all the geniuses that have changed civilization that weren’t model students or even calm at school. Now, rather than encouraging such children to live up to their potential we shove drugs down their throats and turn them into drones…
Full article here.
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Mike
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All benefit for a lot of things:
– Make the drug industry boost their sales
– Modify the frequency of the brain to another one, improving the indoctrination of the school system
– Make doctors more wealthy thank to growing bribes from the drug company for the bigger volume of drugs prescribed
– Better bribes for the legislators (campaign donations sound better) or the responsibles in the health department pushing pushing for policies
– Make the toddlers dependent at a very early age preparing them to become life long customers
Where is the problem?
…Maybe conscience for still few people
How did we ever survive before these modern miracle drugs? sarc/off
Isn’t this exactly what the modern factory food system does? Breeds the animals to fit the machinery. It’s our economic system that is setting the parameters and defining ‘normal’.
Some of this might be related to the vaccination program in the U.S. Plus, if we have so many neurological disorders (that is what some of these are, like add and adhd) it makes sense that citizens have varying degrees of the “disorders”. Like, I might have ADD and You might have ADHD, but someone else might have a more severe case of it…some people just seem mildly distracted while others are severely distracted.
They don’t talk about that, though. I would say that over half the population in the U.S. suffers from varying degrees of one or more disorders, likely brought on by vaccinations. This begs the question; are they experimenting with vaccinations and drugs on the people? I think they are. There are toooo many people (ones i deal with anyway) who can’t follow conversations except for the most mundane and/or “entertaining”.