There is a stealthy game, being played by corrupt pharmaceutical companies, using our children\u2019s lives to distribute psychiatric drugs (1<\/a>). This game must end! Parents must start learning the truth,<\/u> regarding the long-term and permanent injury that these drugs inflict on our children. The harm incurred by these toxic drugs is not an \u201cif\u201d situation, but a \u201cwhen\u201d, and the damage caused is not only irreversible, but deadly. This is precisely why these drugs contain a \u201cblack-box warning\u201d<\/a>, the strictest cautioning in the labeling of prescription drugs by the FDA. Depending on many genetic and biological factors, which include a child\u2019s \u201cantioxidant system\u201d<\/a> and their ability or inability to metabolize a drug, it is like playing Russian roulette every time a pill is given. The short-term \u201cbehavior fix\u201d is not worth the long-term consequences that are suffered throughout our children\u2019s lifetime.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n During the 1960\u2019s, Ritalin was only administered to hospitalized children or children in residential facilities. By the end of the 1970\u2019s, 150,000 children in the United States were taking Ritalin. In 1980, for the first time, \u201cattention-deficit disorder\u201d was identified as a disease; and shortly after, in 1987, it was renamed as \u201cattention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder\u201d (ADHD). Then, in 1991, ADHD was included as a disability that would be covered by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Following this coverage, the number of children diagnosed rose to nearly 1 million in 1990 and more than doubled over the next five years (2<\/a>). Today, more than 10 million children in the United States are being prescribed addictive stimulants, antidepressants, and other psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs for educational and behavioral problems. Children 5 years old and younger are the fastest-growing segment of the non-adult population prescribed antidepressants in the U.S. \u00a0Children as young as 5 years old have committed suicide while under the influence of these drugs, while children as young as 4 have attempted (3<\/a>).<\/strong><\/p>\n Although parents are led to believe ADHD is a brain disease, caused by a chemical imbalance, the truth is that its exact causes to this day still remains unknown. A panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health reiterated this fact: \u201cAfter years of clinical research and experience with ADHD, our knowledge about the cause or causes of ADHD remains largely SPECULATIVE\u201d (my capital emphasis) (4<\/a>). American Psychiatric Press\u2019s 1997 Textbook of Neuropsychiatry<\/em> confessed, \u201cefforts to identify a selective neurochemical imbalance [in ADHD children] have been disappointing\u201d (5<\/a>).<\/strong><\/p>\n It is through perverse counseling and clever marketing that we have been led to believe ADHD is real and that psychiatric drugs are needed to \u201cfix\u201d or \u201cmake normal\u201d our children\u2019s behavioral problems. After being told these problems stem from a chemical imbalance, a diagnosis is given and a prescription soon follows to correct this \u201csupposed\u201d chemical imbalance. What parents do not know is that prescribing these dangerous drugs is based solely on a diagnosis that is fraudulent. There does not exist, nor has there ever been, a test to prove one has ADHD or a chemical imbalance. This is not a claim that there may not be something legitimately wrong or taking place that is contributing to a child\u2019s symptoms, but blindly accepting a scientific-sounding name only prevents the real contributing factor(s) from ever becoming identified. Would we allow our children to receive powerful cancer treating drugs, without a valid medical test confirming that they had cancer? ADHD is not a disease; therefore, doctors and psychiatrists should never have been allowed to prescribe dangerous psycho-stimulant medications to our children.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n So why are we allowing our children to be prescribed powerful, toxic, mind-altering drugs based solely on a \u201cspeculated\u201d diagnosis? Despite the very minimal and questionable short-term benefit, would we still allow our children to take these drugs if we were aware of the serious long-term consequences? These include bi-polar (17<\/a>), enduring a future life of disability (2<\/a>), committing suicide (1<\/a>,2<\/a>) and the silent phenomenon known as Psychiatric Drug-induced Chronic Brain Impairment (CBI) (6<\/a>). Per Dr. Peter Breggin, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at NIMH, \u201cPsychiatric drug-induced CBI is now a much greater threat to society than the emotional problems that the drugs are supposed to treat\u201d (7<\/a>). Studies, which include all classes of psychiatric drugs, can be found that demonstrate brain shrinkage and a lifetime of mental dysfunction (2<\/a>,7<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Suicide is the second leading cause of death among persons aged 10-24 years in the United States (8<\/a>). This statistical tragedy should be screaming out to all of us that something is seriously wrong. These drugs are not preventing suicide but are actually contributing to or causing it just as the drug warnings concede (9<\/a>,10<\/a>). The fact remains that psychiatric drugs are involved in almost every school shooting, school-related violence, mass shooting, homicide and suicide known (9<\/a>,10<\/a>,18<\/a>). We are allowed to think, via media or by other sources that the person who commits such a horrific tragedy is just simply of a crazed mind. However, it is those very actions committed that are as a result of what these drugs\u2019 well-known side effects<\/a> warn they can cause – mania, violence, psychosis, irritability, aggression, homicidal and suicidal ideation, and suicide.\u00a0 The side effects cited are a clear and blatant warning of the destruction these drugs are capable of creating to one\u2019s mind and nor should we believe that these would never pertain to our own children.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Becoming educated on the dangers of psychiatric drugs before ever walking away with a prescription is the KEY to protecting our children and preventing suicide.\u00a0 We cannot allow our children to become pawns in a devious game played only for the sake of greed.\u00a0 Please consider the following:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n As written by Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic<\/em>, \u201cTwenty years ago, our society began regularly prescribing psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents, and now one out of every fifteen Americans enters adulthood with a \u201cserious mental illness.\u201d That is proof of the most tragic sort that our drug-based paradigm of care is doing a great deal more harm than good. The medicating of children and youth became commonplace only a short time ago, and already it has put millions onto a path of lifelong illness\u201d (2<\/a>). \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n It may be akin to finding a needle in a haystack, but searching for the real underlying cause(s) of our children\u2019s symptoms is a needle that we as parents should be tirelessly searching for – not relying on drugs as the \u201cmagic behavior pill\u201d. We as parents need to be accountable for our children\u2019s health and welfare!<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cLove righteousness, you who judge the earth; think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in integrity of heart; because he is found by those who do not test him, and manifests himself to those who do not disbelieve him. For perverse counsels separate people from God, and his power, put to the proof, rebukes the foolhardy. Because into a soul that plots evil, wisdom does not enter, nor does she dwell in a body under debt of sin.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (Wisdom 1:1-4)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Books\/Additional Resource Info:<\/p>\n \u201cDeadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How big pharma has corrupted healthcare\u201d<\/a> by Peter C. Gotzsche<\/p>\n \u201cAnatomy Of An Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America\u201d<\/a> by Robert Whitaker<\/p>\n References:<\/p>\n \u201cThe use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offense. Clandestine production of and trafficking in drugs are scandalous practices. They constitute direct co-operation in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral law.” -Catechism of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,8,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5xLKb-6q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthwarrior.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthwarrior.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthwarrior.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthwarrior.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthwarrior.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthwarrior.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthwarrior.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthwarrior.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthwarrior.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Article](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetruthwarrior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Article-8-Pic.jpg?resize=169%2C300\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n