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Satan contolling the minds of your children
“The minds of your children are being destroyed and distorted by the
use of mind-controlling agents from hell. And I say from hell, My
children, because it is the diabolical plan of satan to control the minds
of your children.” - Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1977
“Your children are being educated for the use of these drugs.” - Our
Lady of the Roses, June 18, 1987
Dr. Peter Breggin, one of the foremost experts on the dangers of prescription drugs,
writes:
In the 1970s, there was a public uproar, outraged books, and congressional
hearings about one hundred thousand children being prescribed Ritalin. Now
hardly anyone remembers that controversy. Instead, millions of children are taking
stimulant drugs with hardly any outcry at all.[1]
Estimates vary widely, but the total number of children on Ritalin has been estimated
between 6 and 8 million children or more in 2000. The United States accounts for
90% of the world’s consumption of Ritalin, which prompted the International
Narcotics Control Board to issue a warning in February of 1995 which deplored the
fact that “10-12 percent of all boys between the ages of 6 and 14 in the United States
have been diagnosed as having ADD and are being treated with methylphenidate
[Ritalin].” The board raised concerns about doctors’ seeking “easy” solutions to
“behavioral problems which may have complex causes.” It also drew attention to the
“promotional practices” that were leading to the overprescription of Ritalin in our
country.
ADHD and Ritalin
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the “disorder” that
supposedly accounts for so many children having trouble in school and posing
disciplinary problems to adults. Ritalin is promoted as the “cure” for this condition,
on the basis that ADHD is a “biochemical imbalance” in the brain that is fixed by the
“magic bullet” of Ritalin. But is ADHD a real physical disease? Can it be
scientifically
identified?
According to Dr. Peter Breggin and many, many scientists, ADHD cannot be
physically identified:
There is no physical test that can detect the supposed existence of ADHD. There
are no specific physical symptoms associated with it. The ADHD diagnosis is
made by comparing the child’s behaviors with a description of the disorder as
defined and accepted by experts and practitioners in the field.[2]
Dr. Breggin also writes:
There are no objective diagnostic criteria for ADHD—no physical symptoms, no
neurological signs, and no blood tests. Despite claims to the contrary, there are no
brain scan findings and no biochemical imbalances. No physical tests can be done
to verify that a child has ADHD.[3]
Gerald Golden, a professor of pediatrics and neurology, put it bluntly: “Attempts
to define a biological basis for ADHD have been consistently unsuccessful. The
neuroanatomy of the brain, as demonstrated by neuroimaging studies, is normal. No
neuropatholical
substrate
has
been
demonstrated….”[4]
In a scientific review, Diane McGuinness called Attention Deficit Disorder “the
emperor’s new clothes.”[5] In The Hyperactive Child and Stimulant Drugs, Roger
Freeman labelled the state of the art and practice in the field surrounding ADHD “a
mess.” He went on to note that this area is “characterized by rarely challenged myths,
ill-defined boundaries, and a strangely seductive attractiveness.”[6]
With facts such as these, many people have concluded with Dr. Breggin that there
is “no evidence that ADHD is a valid clinical entity associated with physical
dysfunction
of
the
brain.”[7]
How does a child become diagnosed as ADHD? What are the criteria for such a
diagnosis? This is a shocker. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV), considered the “bible” of psychiatric
diagnosis, the entire criteria for making a diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder is
the following:
A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months,
during which four (or more) of the following are present: (1) often loses temper,
(2) often argues with adults, (3) often actively defies or refuses to comply with
adult requests or rules, (4) often deliberately annoys people, (5) often blames
others for his or her mistakes or misbehaviors, (6) is often touchy or easily
annoyed by others, (7) is often angry and resentful, (8) is often spiteful or
vindictive.[8]
No physical cause is described but only behavioral conflict and anger. Dr. Breggin
notes that the above diagnosis is merely eight ways to say a child is angry.
If ADHD is not a medical entity, then why is Ritalin so heavily prescribed? Arthur
Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics, writes,
“There’s either a strange plague of hyperactivity in the U.S., or we’ve got a lot of
folks prescribing Ritalin as a psychopharmocological nanny.”[9] Dr. Breggin hits the
nail on the head: “Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has one overriding purpose—to put a medical veneer on the use of medication to control the
behavior of children.”[10]
Drug companies and Ritalin
It should alert any parent’s attention that, with virtually no understanding of the longterm effects of stimulant drugs such as Ritalin, these drugs were heavily advertised by
the drug companies for the treatment of problem children. There are enormous sums
of money involved in the development and marketing of prescription drugs. Leon
Eisenberg, a professor of psychiatry and social medicine at Harvard Medical School,
says that the sale of Ritalin and other stimulant drugs for children are “driven by the
convenience of the doctor, the profitability of the drug company, and the notion that
there is nothing more meaningful to life than biochemistry.”[11]
Sedating effect of Ritalin
Dr. Breggin notes that “In today’s society, the drugging of children to control their
behavior is viewed as a medical activity, but it has little or nothing to do with the
genuine practice of medicine.”[12] He also warns that Ritalin is being used to
medicate children into submission. This observation is similar to that made in the
book Not in Our Genes, which reported that in the use of Ritalin,
… higher doses simply result in sedation—yet in school use it is the higher doses
that tend to be employed.[13] This makes the drug yet one more version of the
chemical straightjacket, ensuring that the teacher has an easier task in maintaining
classroom order, but only by doping out the children who would otherwise make it
harder.[14]
Dr. Breggin accuses our school system of waging a “war on children” in which
schools are selectively suppressing some of the most intelligent, brave, energetic, and
creative children. He writes:
There’s a war against children going on in our schools and the most outstanding of
our children are the first to be targeted for control by drugs. We’re using drugs the
way gardeners use herbicides to destroy weeds—except these toxins are aimed at
the flowering of our children. Schools are not the only institutions that encourage
the drugging of children. Controlling children with psychiatric medications is
rampant in foster homes and in any institutional setting, such as juvenile detention
centers and prisons, where docility is valued.[15]
He also accuses indiscriminate use of dangerous drugs on children as a form of
“technological child abuse” and laments the fact that many of his colleagues in the
medical profession could stem the tide of this abuse, but have not:
The psychiatric diagnosing and drugging of children should be viewed as a
form of technological child abuse—conformity enforced by physical
suppression of the brain. I do not blame the millions of parents and teachers
who have been hoodwinked by organized psychiatry and medicine. Instead, I
hold my colleagues responsible for this national catastrophe, especially those
mental health professionals who enjoy leadership roles in professional
associations, universities, government agencies, and industry. I call upon them
to find the courage to stand up on behalf of children. The combined efforts of
a relatively small but ethical fraction of the health profession could stem the
tide of medical child abuse.[16]
Ritalin: a dangerous drug
There is no evidence that Ritalin has any beneficial long-term effects. In a study
done by R. Weiss and his scientific colleagues, hyperactive children who had been
treated with Ritalin for up to five years, and compared them to similarly hyperactive
children who had not had drug treatment.[17] They fully expected to see a beneficial
drug effect. But they reported “no differences in adolescence between the drugged
and the undrugged children in school marks, in number of grades failed, in amount of
hyperactivity, or in antisocial behavior. The problems of organically hyperactive
children seemed to linger on, whether or not they had been drugged.”[18]
Ritalin has been touted as a safe, non-addictive drug. Unfortunately, both claims
are false. As Dr. Breggin points out, “It is not a speculation but a fact demonstrated in
thousands of laboratory studies in normal animals: All psychiatric drugs produce
severe biochemical imbalances and related abnormalities by interferring with the
normal brain function.”[19] He also writes that Ritalin and other stimulants:
… do not ‘normalize’ the brain; they render it abnormal. This cannot be overemphasized: Stimulants produce pathological malfunctions in the child’s brain.
Whenever these drugs have any direct effect on the child’s mind or behavior, they
do so by disrupting brain function. In short, effective doses of Ritalin always
cause malfunctions in the brain.[20]
This drug-induced brain disruption is the “robotic effect” sometimes observed in
children
taking
Ritalin.
Regarding the erroneous claims that Ritalin is non-addictive, it should be noted
that “Under the Controlled Substances Act, the FDA classifies Ritalin in Schedule
II—the most addictive class of drugs in medical use. It shares Schedule II with other
stimulants (Dexedrine and cocaine) and with narcotics (morphine).”[21] The
International Narcotics Control Board in 1996 declared: “Methlyphenidate’s
[Ritalin’s] pharmacological effects are essentially the same as those of amphetamine
and methamphetamines. The abuse of methlyphenidate can lead to tolerance and
severe psychological dependence. Psychotic episodes, violent and bizarre behavior
have been reported.”[22] Furthermore, the International Narcotics Control Board
reported that in 1996 “emergency room visits by children age 10-14 involving Ritalin
intoxication have now reached the same level as those for cocaine. This indicates
escalating abuse of this highly addictive drug.”
A little known fact is that drug addicts are frequently using Ritalin. By 1973 G.S.
Omenn noted:
Illicit traffic in Ritalin has increased among narcotic addicts… Those on
Methadone appreciate the “up” effect of Ritalin. Those on heroin can prolong the
duration of action of a given dose of heroin by concommitantly taking Ritalin…
In Chicago’s Cook County Prison, Ritalin is called “West Coast” by the heroin
addicts.[23]
Other physical effects of Ritalin include brain shrinkage, according to a 1986 report
by Henry A. Nasrallah:
A team led by Henry A. Nasrallah (1986) from Ohio State found shrinkage of the
brain more than 50% of twenty-four young adults with hyperactivity since
childhood. Shrinkage—or the more technical term, atrophy—indicates that brain
tissue has become withered and reduced in volume.[24]
Ritalin has also been proven to effect growth in children:
Dozens of studies have demonstrated that Ritalin disrupts the normal cycle of
growth hormone production in the body. By the mid 1970s, the effect of Ritalin in
disrupting growth hormone levels in most subjects was already “unequivocal.”
The adverse effect on growth hormone is so regular and predictable that it can be
used as a measure of whether or not the Ritalin is active in the child’s body.[25]
Additionally, Ritalin use can affect future career choices of children. The Department
of Defense has an official policy of turning away all recruits who have taken Ritalin
or other similar drugs after the age of twelve.[26] But Dr. Breggin’s warning about
Ritalin are not based merely on compromised career choices; he considers Ritalin a
toxic agent that should be illegal: “I believe it is abusive and I think it should be
illegal. It harms the brain of the child and undermines any hope of a peaceful, loving
resolution of the conflicts the child is having with other people.”[27]
Parents, teachers and Ritalin
Dr. Breggin brings up a very important, but often answered, question regarding the
ADHD diagnosed child. As was noted above, the ADHD diagnosis appears to be
eight ways to say the child in question is angry. But why is the child angry? He says
“In my own experience, extreme behaviors in children are always matched by
extreme deprivations, provocations, or confusions in their lives.”[28] The curious
thing about the ADHD diagnosis is that the crux of the problem is put entirely on the
child, as if the child had no external problems or valid reasons for his anger. But this
is over-simplistic. In fact, it is very suspicious that parents, teachers and others are left
out
of
the
“diagnostic
loop.”[29]
William Stableford (1976) and a group from the University of Vermont
Department of Psychology addressed the impact of giving drugs on the parents
themselves: “Handing a child a pill each day is a simple task, and it allows the parents
the comfort of placing the explanation for their child’s hyperactive behavior on his
physiological makeup. They are therefore absolved of any responsibility.”[30]
A much more realistic approach is to view the child’s behavioral problem as a
combination of problems within the child and caregivers alike (including parents and
teachers). If parents are guilty of failing to give necessary attention and loving
discipline to their child, labeling the child with a “biological disorder” gets them off
the hook, but with tragic consequences for the child: “If we begin instead with a
conviction that our child has a biological disorder, we may temporarily stave off
guilt—but we also give up responsibility. We sacrifice our perceptions of reality—and
potentially our child’s well-being—to feeling good about ourselves.”[31] Creating
diagnostic categories for troublesome children tends to remove blame from the failure
of parents and schools, and throw responsibility entirely on a fictitious “chemical
imbalance” within the child. As Dr. Breggin observes, such an attitude “is good for
the business of doctoring and the business of selling drugs. It may make life easier for
some parents and teachers. But it is very bad for children.”[32]
Professor Leon Eisenberg of Harvard Medical School, in an interview by
the Boston Globe, believes that such drugging of children is unethical: “This whole
trend towards giving pills to children as a solution to everything, particularly in the
absence of evidence that they work, is fundamentally unethical.”[33] A child with
disciplinary and emotional problems is certainly a reason for concern “but it’s no
reason to diagnose and to drug the child.”[34] Dr. Breggin claims that labelling such
children as ADHD is merely a “diagnostic sleight of hand” that blames the source of
the conflict entirely on the child and puts “the child in a category that requires no
further
exploration
or
understanding
on
our
part.”[35]
Dr. Breggin give an analogy that is quite easy to understand: people will react to
adverse physical conditions, such as severe air pollution, depending upon their own
physical condition. The infirm, the especially young or old, will more quickly be
affected by air pollution than a healthy individual would. So too, children are much
more susceptible to problems in family and school conditions than are adults. If the
family and school are providing a “toxic environment” for the child’s growth, the
child will usually be the first to emotionally and spiritually “wilt.” Dr. Breggin
encourages all parents and caregivers to take back responsibility for our children and
reclaim them from the so-called “experts” and “dedicate ourselves to providing
children with the adult relationships that they need ”and reject the easy pattern of
diagnosing children which is “robbing them of the moral, social, and spiritual context
of
their
lives.”[36]
The stresses on children these days are innumerable. Separation or divorce is the
single most damaging circumstance in a child’s life, a factor affecting the majority of
children nowadays. In 1970, 90 percent of children lived with both parents. By 1997,
the figure had dropped to 64 percent.[37] So to simplistically attribute an emotionally
and behaviorally troubled child as “chemically imbalanced” without acknowledging
the existence of other real and more likely causes for the child’s unruly behavior may
indicate a form of denial present in parents and teachers alike. For this reason, Dr.
Breggin says we must utterly reject the idea that all these problems are merely
attributed to “our children’s brains or bodies”:
The most despairing and violent of our children reflect the underlying disorder
of the society: the alienation and abandonment of our children. We must
utterly reject the idea that the problem lies in our children’s brains or bodies,
or that we need to focus on diagnosing individual children. Instead we need to
identify the breakdown of relationship with our children in our homes,
schools, and community, and then to come together as adults dedicated to
making ourselves and our institutions more able to serve the needs of our
children.[38]
Sweeping children under the “drug rug” rather than attending to children’s individual
needs is not the answer. Too often, society has “turned to medicating them into
silence so that we don’t have to deal with their pain.”[39] Dr. Breggin, who has been
frequently successful in working with such emotionally and behaviorally disturbed
children, emphasizes the fact that:
Psychiatric drugs simply subdue children’s signs of suffering. Suppressing our
children’s emotional signals with toxic agents not only harms them, it delays
our recognition of the larger environmental stressors in the family, school, and
community.[40]
Dr. Breggin also firmly believes that parents “should never allow anyone, not even
medical doctors, to give their children psychoactive (mind-altering) drugs for the
control of emotions or behavior.”[41] Real solutions will not be found in drugging
children into submission.
It is said that the moral health of a country can be measured by how it treats its
most vulnerable citizens. Given such unethical treatment of children, our country
appears to be spiritually very, very sick. It is well to ponder these words by Dr.
Breggin:
The drugging of children for behavior control should raise profound spiritual,
philosophical, and ethical questions about ourselves as adults and about how
we view the children in our care. Society ignores these critical questions at
great peril to itself, to its values, and to the well-being of its children.[42]
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[1] Dr. Peter R. Breggin, Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Plan for a Nation in Crisis, 273-274.
Dr. Peter R. Breggin, Talking Back to Ritalin: What Doctors aren’t telling you about stimulants for your children, 121.
[3] Ibid.,
144.
[4] Gerald Golden, “Role of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in learning disabilities,” Seminars in Neurology, 11, 35-41.
[5] Diane McGuinness, 1989, “The emperor’s new clothes, animal ‘pharm’, and other fiction. In S. Fisher and R.P. Greenberg (eds.), The
limits of biological treatments for psychological distress, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 151-188.
[6] Roger
Freeman,
The
Hyperactive
Child
and
Stimulant
Drugs,
5.
[7] Dr. Peter Breggin, Talking Back to Ritalin: What Doctors aren’t telling you about stimulants for your children, 41.
[8] Dr.
Peter
R.
Breggin, Reclaiming
Our
Children:
A
Healing
Plan
for
a
Nation
in
Crisis, 121.
[9] K.
Murphy,
August
25,
1997,
“Why
Johnny
can’t
sit
still,” Business
Week,
p.
194E4.
[10] Dr. Peter Breggin, Talking Back to Ritalin: What Doctors aren’t telling you about stimulants for your children, 140.
[11] M. Leonard, “Children are the new hot market for anti-depressants,” Boston Globe, May 25, 1997, p. D1.
[12] Dr. Peter Breggin, Talking Back to Ritalin: What Doctors aren’t telling you about stimulants for your children, 117.
[13] R. L. Sprague and E.K. Sleator, “Methylphenidate in Hyperkinetic Children: Differences in Dose Effects on Learning and Social
Behaviour,” Science 198
(1977): 1274-1276.
[14] R.C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin, Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature, 192-193.
[15] Dr. Peter R. Breggin, Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Plan for a Nation in Crisis, 145.
[16] Ibid.,
279.
[17] G. Weiss, E. Kruger, V. Danielson, and M. Elmann, “Effect of Long-term Treatment of Hyperactive Children with Methylphenidate
[Ritalin],” Canadian
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[18] R.C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon J. Kamin, Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature, 182.
[19] Dr. Peter R. Breggin, Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Plan for a Nation in Crisis, 140.
[20] Dr. Peter Breggin, Talking Back to Ritalin: What Doctors aren’t telling you about stimulants for your children, 121.
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