While I still taught in the
public schools in the 70's, a label was attached to children acting out in
class. Those needing help to handle their behavior in my class were sent for a
hair test by the school psychologist. Missing minerals and other elements were
detected to balance the child's chemistry through a hair test. Proper nutrition
was provided through the specially prepared school lunches, for two boys in my
room. After two weeks, the boys were acting appropriate in the classroom. After
the psychologist retired, Ritalin was prescribed rather than using diet to help
the students. In my experience, I found that drugs are toxic and stop emotional
growth and good feelings.
During my research for
another article, I found a common thread among the many school shootings in the
news. In speaking with a security guard at one of the schools, he divulged that
the shooting students were on prescriptions, including Ritalin.
The following excerpt is from my research article, "Are
the Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and School Authorities Manufacturing
Insanity",
…In the Columbine incident great
attention was in the media, without the real cause. That the students were on
drugs was not widely shared. One survivor of Columbine, Mark Taylor, in his testimony before the FDA 9/13/2004 stated, “As
Americans we should have the right to feel safe and if you were doing your job
we would be safe. Why are we worrying about terrorists in other countries when
the pharmaceutical companies have proven to be our biggest terrorists by
releasing these drugs on an unsuspecting public? The manufacture did not
disclose the negative side effects of antidepressant-induced manic behaviors
like fire starting, violence and aberrant behavior as the high profits came in.
They are potentially habit forming, meaning addictive and create long-term
patients and then profits. A pill does not assist in dealing with life. Let us
support our youth in dealing with their problems utilizing effective, natural
drug-free solutions…
US American psychiatrist, Leon
Eisenberg, born in 1922 as the son of Russian Jewish Immigrants, who was the
“Scientific father of ADHD” said at the age or 87 in his last interview, “ADHD
is a prime example of a fictitious disease.” Since 1968, Leon Eisenberg’s
“disease” was expressed in the diagnostic and statistical manuals, first as
“hyperkinetic reaction of childhood”, now called “ADHD in the United States.
The use of Ritalin raised the question that it amounted to
interference in the child’s freedom and personal rights, because
pharmacological agents induced behavioral changes but failed to educate the
child on how to achieve these behavioral changes independently. The child was
deprived of an essential learning experience to act autonomously and
emphatically which “considerably curtails their freedom and impairs their
personality development.
The issue led to the investigation
of “financial ties” to the pharmaceutical industry. They found there was a financial
association between those prescribing with companies in the medicinal manufacturing.
In addition, they found a one hundred percent financial tie to drug companies
for other prescribed drugs, especially for the treatment for mental disorders.
In my practice, I found that one child in a typical
dysfunctional family will act out the family's emotional baggage. The student
carries the anger, shame and other emotional weight of the family and becomes
the scapegoat. Placing children in the hands of a
pharmaceutical market because the entire society cannot handle the products of
its misguided theories of human behavior and raising children is a form of
insanity. Let us return to the basic matter of individual psychology and
education where the child is to acquire personal responsibility and appropriate
behavior under sensible guidance involving the family and the schools.
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