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Children Are Dying From ADHD Drugs
Children Are Dying From ADHD Drugs
They cannot make me believe the ADHD hype. Children are naturally curious. They are not meant to sit trapped in class rooms, and submit to mind numbing. Even adults would – or should – start displaying inappropriate behavior to stop the killing of the mind.
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Children are dying from ADHD Drugs
April 15, 2001 this website was created in hopes of providing parents and guardians with information about the truth behind ADHD and the drugs used to treat children diagnosed with ADD or ADHD.
We built this website because we didn’t want other children to die or suffer side effects because of their parents lack of knowledge.
We did all we could to convince state and federal government about the methods used in the miss-diagnosing of thousands of children with in ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD Attention hyperactivity disorder of ADHD and psychotropic drugging of children with Ritalin and other drugs.
Since the death of our 14-year-old son Matthew caused from the use of Ritalin prescribed for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) our family has been informing others world wide via the internet about ADHD and the dangers of psychotropic drugs in memory of our son and countless other children that have died over the years as a direct result of using psychotropic drugs.
We wish to expose the health risks, dangers, deaths and suicides that are a direct result of administering Ritalin and other psychiatric drugs to children.
We hope our story and information will in some way benefit your family and prevent our tragedy from being your families’ reality and nightmare.
Our fourteen year old son Matthew suddenly died on March 21, 2000. The cause of death was determined to be from the long-term (age 7-14) use of Methylphenidate, a drug commonly known as Ritalin.
According to Dr. Ljuba Dragovic, the Chief Pathologist of Oakland County, Michigan, upon autopsy, Matthew’s heart showed clear signs of small vessel damage caused from the use of Methylphenidate (Ritalin).
*The certificate of death reads: “Death caused from Long Term Use of Methylphenidate, Ritalin.”
I was told by one of the medical examiners that a full-grown man’s heart weighs about 350 grams and that Matthew’s heart’s weight was about 402 grams. Dr. Dragovic said this type of heart damage is smoldering and not easily detected with the standard test done for prescription refills. The standard test usually consists of blood work, listening to the heart, and questions about school behaviors, sleeping and eating habits.
*What is important to note here is that Matthew did not have any pre-existing heart condition or defect.
via Children Are Dying From ADHD Drugs | Engineered Ignorance.
via Children Are Dying From ADHD Drugs | Engineered Ignorance.
Pictorial Religious themes 6
Early 20th-century interest in religion and mental health was sparked by Freud’s view of religion as intrinsically neurotic. Freud described religion and its rituals as a collective neurosis, which, he suggested, could save a person the effort of forming an individual neurosis. For example, in an early paper, Freud (1907/1924) spelt out the similarities between religious rituals and obsessional rituals. He argued that guilt is created when rituals are not carried out, and assuaged when they are, so a self-perpetuating ‘ritualaholic’ cycle is set up.
Julian Assange’s health critical following publicity bypass
Friends of Julian Assange fear that his physical and mental health is deteriorating inside the Ecuadorian embassy after his recent hi-profile publicity bypass.
Those close the wikileaks founder demand that vital measures must be taken to safeguard his well-being.
Julian Assange has remained holed up in the south American embassy since June.
“He is being deprived of his basic physiological and psychological needs” explained a source close to Assange,
“He has been denied access to the vital oxygen of publicity, and as a result has developed a chronic lung problem”.
A friend added that Assange “has been out of the media spotlight for far too long, and is developing a severe case of underexposure which is turning his skin a ghostly pallor”.
Assange illness
Friends are concerned that he is also suffering from a general feeling of irrelevance as western democratic governments get on with the job of ruling their countries without first seeking his approval.
His supporters, however, have plenty of solutions to offer.
“We have suggested that the embassy expands to occupy the adjacent premises to protect Assange’s ego from claustrophobia,” said a friend.
“The extension should be furnished with plenty of full length mirrors”.
Another source claimed that “arrangements should be made for Assange to address adoring masses of followers from the embassy balcony”.
It is expected that Assange’s friends will pay for actors to be bussed in to swell the crowds to sufficient numbers.
If these measures do not succeed, his supporters want to organise the broadcasting of a special edition of ‘I am a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here’.
via Julian Assange’s health critical following publicity bypass.
via Julian Assange’s health critical following publicity bypass.
Threat of unemployment since recession has led to decline in men’s mental health
THE threat of unemployment since the recession has led to a decline in men’s mental health, a study suggests.
Researchers from the Medical Research Council in Glasgow said the onset of the economic downturn could be considered a “threat to public health”.
The authors, who wanted to examine whether the recession had an impact on levels of anxiety and depression, analysed data concerning 107,000 people taken from the annual Health Survey for England for adults aged 25 to 64, between 1991 and 2010.
Their findings, published in the online journal BMJ Open, show that rates of poor mental health were highest between 1991 and 1993, when the UK was in recession, after which they fell steadily until 2004.
The rates then started to gradually rise until 2008, at which point they rose sharply.
In 2008, when the downturn began, the prevalence of people suffering from anxiety and depression was 13.7%, but the figure rose to 16.4% in 2009 and fell to 15.5% in 2010.
Men appeared to be worst affected. The rate of poor mental health in men rose from 11.3% in 2008 to 16.6% in 2009. In women, the rate only increased by 0.2%, to 16.2%.
The authors concluded: “The finding that mental health across the general population has deteriorated following the recession’s onset, and (that) this association does not appear to be limited to those out of employment nor those whose household income has declined, has important implications.
“Previous research has highlighted the importance of job insecurity, rather than solely employment status, as potentially resulting in adverse effects on mental health.
“One potential explanation for our results would be that job insecurity during the current recession is responsible for the deterioration in mental health, with men’s psychological health remaining more affected by economic fluctuations despite greater female labour market participation.”
Justine Schneider, professor of mental health and social care at the University of Nottingham, said: “It’s long been recognised that the impact on mental health of job insecurity is worse than that of joblessness, these recent analyses confirm that the threat of unemployment is in itself harmful.
“When people lose their jobs they react in different ways; some people thrive and this offsets the average impact. Young people however are particularly badly affected by unemployment, which seems to reduce their self-esteem and increase the risk of depression.”
Dr Amy Chandler, research fellow at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships at the University of Edinburgh, said: “This new analysis provides further support to theories that suggest that men – more than women – might be affected negatively by unstable job markets and rising prices.
“An interesting addition to current knowledge is the authors’ finding that this decline in mental health was also apparent among men who were employed, whereas previously much has been made of the association between unemployment and poor mental health among men.
“This suggests that there should be acknowledgement that recession can impact negatively upon men in general, whether in employment or not.”
– Ella Pickover
Extraordinary that more are being turned down for disability allowance
Fianna Fáil are warning that two out of every three disability allowance applications to the Department of Social Welfare are being refused.
The party have issued figures showing that the amount of applications refused has risen from 54% in 2010 to 61% for 2011.
The party’s spokesperson for social protection, Willie O’Dea, says the latest figures show that this number will jump to nearly two thirds of all applications being refused for 2012.
And he says he doesn’t understand why the refusals keep rising: “In so far as people being turned down are concerned, there’s no change in criteria.
“Well if there’s no change in the critieria since this government took office, then it is absolutely extraordinary that many more people are being turned down for disability allowance.
via O’Dea: Extraordinary that more are being turned down for disability allowance | BreakingNews.ie.
via O’Dea: Extraordinary that more are being turned down for disability allowance | BreakingNews.ie.
