If people were given the known "facts" about ADHD and the drugs which are used to treat it, I would have very little problems with it.
I actually say: Let people use whatever they want to themselves, if they use it without inflicting pain or suffering on somebody else. I'm no anti-drug advocate. But today, ADHD is portrayed as a real disease, much like cancer or malaria. Which in turn comes with medicines like Adderall that is said to treat it. But ADHD is nothing factual like Cancer or Malaria, it cant be compared to real diseases.
There isn't a doctor in the world that can point to where "ADHD" is suppose to be in the brain. There's nothing to look at or measure. It's a fictional disease. This information needs to be given to all parents which at this time are sitting in front of a psychiatrist who is giving out dangerous drugs while only attesting to their positive values and merits.
That there are some people who can function while on amphetamines are well known. Then there are millions and millions who doesn't. I'm not refusing you the right to use whatever substance you want that you think is helping you, in fact: I urge anyone to help them self wisely. I'm no anti-drug advocate. However, and here's the point. "Success stories" like this does in no way take away the fact that what we are talking about here is amphetamines that are distributed to small children like it was some kind of "wonderdrug". The results are catastrophic, and in time this will be another of those stories where people were lied to, because big farma only thinks about money.
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As someone who is also working with kids who has ADHD, Autism, Asperger syndrome. I have seen no long term positive effects from medication and ADHD. Instead what I have noticed is that kids who are taking Ritalin etc stop responding logically to other treatments and positive changes in their environment. With these medications, what you are left with are young children who suddenly experience extreme highs and lows. Looses appetite. Starts "seeing things" that are not there. Some become introverted, some become the opposite. There's suddenly no logic to anything when on medication. The side effects are awful and we really don't have any evidence that the medication work or indeed that ADHD really exists. The answer is that this is really just big business and creating junkies out of our kids is highly profitable. Related: Playlist with criticism about psychiatry and big pharma
ADHD is a blanket term that can used to cover any "unwanted" behavior. It's a made up term that has no business being used as criterias which if deemed fulfilled means that a person can be prescribed highly addictive and dangerous drugs which does nothing but further fucks things up in the long run. Related. http://www.naturalnews.com/040938_adhd_fictitious_disease_ps...
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