http://www.uhuh.com/education/ritpsychs.htmTitle: Psychiatrists and Ritalin - Summary by Forest Glen Durland
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HOW PSYCHIATRY IS MAKING DRUG ADDICTS OUT OF AMERICA'S SCHOOL CHILDREN By Dennis H. Clarke Copyright © 1997 by Dennis H. Clarke, All Rights Reserved Prologue and Summary by Forest Glen Durland Prologue Child energy and control -- high and low by Forest Glen Durland Copyright 1998 by Forest Glen Durland Based on personal experience, my three children and many years teaching, my diagnosis of more-active and less-active than "normal" children finds that these traits are usually caused and controlled by two factors: home life and diet. Home life is the mental aspect, while diet is the physical aspect. Happy home life with two parents (one of each gender) usually produces a well-balanced and mentally secure child that copes well with school life. Unsettled and broken homes usually produce children who are unsettled and insecure mentally. It is that simple, really. For years I have regarded students as a vivid video monitor of their home life. Man is a product of his environment. TV plays a huge part in this drama. The average child watches that idiot tube over five hours each day. Most sensible parents agree that most TV programs are junk. For years doctors and scientists have known that the human body needs certain nutrients, vitamins, etc. to remain healthy. Omit any of those items and a problem will probably develop. Add other items that alter mind and/or body and serious consequences can follow. The two major items that have caused problems in my classroom are sugars and caffeine. Both speed a child's activity. Sugar is brutal when its supply is exhausted. When the supply runs out, sugars and refined white flours dump you flat on your face. That is most probably why kids go from high to low. The normal is missing. Most schools have junk food machines abundant. A fast junk food store is nearby. It is the responsibility of the parents and our school administrators to remove those sources of school interruption. And interruption it most certainly is. Time after time, year after year, I have witnessed students coming into the room by way of the ceiling. By the time I got them down the wall, the bell rang and they charged out. I have witnessed a boy jugalugging a pint of tea. That is a big slug of caffeine. At break and lunch, sugar laden snacks are everywhere. Our parents and our school administrators are at fault on both counts. It is they that should control diet. Potent doses of sugar do something else to the body. When the overdose of sugar is detected, the body moves to counteract it. When the sugar burns up, the body is left with an overdose of counteraction that could be felt as an insulin shock. In summary, an overdose of sugar causes the body to go into a yo-yo reaction. Teachers don't seem to be the least cognizant of this cause and effect, labeling the child abnormal and needing treatment. So it is no wonder that students are either high or low. There can be no even activity. Enter the psychiatrists with zero experience in the classroom. Teachers say kids are not normal. Psychiatrist gives drugs. Kids become addicts. Yes, addicts - millions of them. Hillary on the Hill has pushed Goals 2000 on the schools, and school administrators are eating it up. Well, Goals 2000 makes it legal for teachers to administer Ritalin, Prozac and Valium to students without prescription and without as much as notifying the child's parents. Now comes the real shocker: Ritalin is about the same as cocaine -- permanently addictive and brain damaging. Active children are not bad or sick children. They are healthy children. Inactive children are not necessarily sick. Check their home life and diet. But think three times before letting government take over. They have been demonstrating Nazi influence in American lately, taking the children from the parents. This is a dangerous precedent you are well advised to caution against. Sugar, caffeine and nicotine are definitely habit forming. Caffeine will flush itself out of the body in about ten days. But sugar and nicotine create a craving that is extremely difficult to overcome. One ex-addict stated that it was easier to throw the cocaine habit than nicotine. Sugar, caffeine and nicotine are so influential on mental eating habits and response that I labeled them the BBK minors in my book, Age of the Mind. BBK majors are the hard stuff like cocaine and its tough, nasty brother, Ritalin. BBK stands for Brain and Body Killers. Now you know what I think of excess sugar and sugared junk food. The BBK minors set the stage for the majors. Once kids get hooked on the easy stuff, it is an easy step to the BBK majors. Add to the influence the ever present TV. For five hours a day kids watch TV characters eat junk food galore and pop pills for every pain that never existed. So they are brain washed to eat something that makes them unsettled, then to take something to calm them down. Sugar sellers, psychiatrists and drug companies are making millions off our kids habits. In addition to the BBK influence, TV fries the human mind. The children become addicted to it and are unable to live by themselves and keep themselves at peace with their own mind. TV prevents kids from learning to think for themselves. The TV does all their thinking for them, is designed for the eighth grade mind and lower, and constantly imprints the sellers desires on the children's putty-soft minds. All of this summed up is a powerful dose. Sugar, caffeine and nicotine are being pushed constantly by the TV adds into a controlled, receptive young mind. BBK minors graduate up to the BBK majors. Incidentally, I consider alcohol a BBK major. Now add an additional, clandestine influence. Open your mind, now, and do not rush to label this subject with your favorite brush off. I am well researched and documented and know whereof I speak. An unseen, covert governing elite have been gradually gaining control of the world for about three centuries. Recent statements indicate that their agenda is nearly complete. One of their necessary goals is total mind control. It is plain to see this assault in our schools. At the hands of Hillary Clinton, Goals 2000 has been forced on all school districts, probably unconstitutionally. Goals 2000, also known as OBE (Outcome Based Education) has made it legal for schools to give Ritalin, Prozac and valium to kids without even telling their parents. So, summing up all of this story, we have millions of children on Ritalin. If hooked, and it could so easily happen, we will have a nation of addicts very soon. Well, addicts will do anything they are told for a fix. The agenda of the governing elite is nearly complete. You can start by cutting the cord on all your TVs. Then buy some good books and magazines like National Geographic. Buy a piano, some art supplies, and some books on music, art and foreign language. It worked for my family. When I moved, I junked the TV. The administering of Ritalin to children raises a bright caution flag. If Ritalin is more dangerous than cocaine, why is it made legal by, and perhaps recommended by Goals 2000? That's "the Village" Hilliary Clinton is pushing. That's the federal legislation that makes it legal for teachers to administer Ritalin to students without prescription and without as much as notifying the parents. These facts alone should tell everyone that Goals 2000 is up to no good. It appears to reflect the moral character of the PresidentS CLinton. In the following summary, read the documentation that Ritalin makes children suicidal and dangerous. This adds volatile fuel to the research question on this education site: Was Ritalin taken by the kids who killed kids? So far, the answer is yes. We need more cases and letters of proof for documentation. Then it is up you Moms to march on Congress, for that appears to be our only hope of mopping this country's legislative floor. The kitchen militia knows how to get that job done. The rest of us must get behind you and push. We must support you. Time is short. In November we must replace about half of Congress with people who know how the keep the floor clean. And before then, we must cause Congress to boot Clinton, Clinton and Gore clear out of town. Be sure that is on your list of chores for the kids to do, meaning, of course, Congress. After all, OUR Constitution, or what's left of it, says that Congress is working for us. So, tell 'em, Ladies! They are not listening to me. Please read on. Forest Glen Durland This Introduction is for public use. HOW PSYCHIATRY IS MAKING DRUG ADDICTS OUT OF AMERICA'S SCHOOL CHILDREN By Dennis H. Clarke Summary by Forest Glen Durland Intended as complete study on the drugging of America's children, this work by Dennis Clarke is, indeed, revealing, if not frightening. Parents can not help wonder what OUR government is doing to their children. In 1995, over two million children were addicted to some of the most dangerous and addictive drugs known to man. These drugs can alter the mind and cause brain damage. Extensive documentation is available. "Authorities" "diagnose" children as young as 18 months of age as having "mental illness". Once labeled, pediatricians and psychiatrists then "treat the mental illness" with some of the most dangerous and addictive substances known to man. Many of the children's lives are ruined. "Today, under psychiatry's invented criteria, there isn't a single normal childhood activity which doesn't fall within the broad 'symptoms' which comprise so-called 'mental illness'. Some of the labels are: Attention Deficit Disorder, Hyperactivity, Minimal Brain Dysfunction, Learning Disability, Impulse disorder, Developmental Reading Disorder, Developmental Writing Disorder, developmental Arithmetic Disorder." "Result: addicts and lunatics. Brains are fried and body functions are damaged. This is what Ritalin and dozens of other psychiatric drugs are intended to do. To add insult to injury, in many, if not all cases, parents are not made aware of the magnitude of the 'treatment' ". "If these are 'medical criteria', Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a fraud being perpetrated on the parents, teachers and children of America by the psychiatric industry which is in constant need of new customers and by greedy drug manufacturers cashing in on this nations generous medical insurance and ignorance. The psychiatrists and drug companies win and the children and the future of society lose. It is as simple as that". "Attention Deficit Disorder is in fact, in the eyes of the beholder. ... " The effects of Ritalin, amphetamines and cocaine, including the side effects, are, in fact, indistinguishable.
WHAT IS RITALIN? "Frankly, Ritalin is one of the most dangerous and addictive substances known to man. It is an extremely potent stimulant, a 'speed' type drug, or 'upper' as it is known to and is in high demand by 'street' addicts. In the human body, its effect is chemically and neurologically equivalent to cocaine or the amphetamines." "While Ritalin is a different chemical from cocaine and the amphetamines, it has almost an identical effect with two important differences. First, milligram per milligram, Ritalin is more potent than cocaine or amphetamines. Second, the effects of Ritalin last longer than cocaine or the amphetamines." "Ritalin, when used on children, is given orally rather than being injected, snorted or smoked as with methamphetamine and cocaine. But the use of cocaine or amphetamines orally would have the same effect as Ritalin on the child, with the only difference being that more cocaine or amphetamine would be needed to get the same effect. It should be known that experienced addicts are unable to distinguish injected cocaine from injected Ritalin or injected amphetamines." "The injection of Ritalin destroys the vein at the sight of the injection and often the needle mark will become infected with sores that will not heal. The addicts will often use up and ruin the usual veins in the arms, legs, hands and feet and begin "shooting" under fingernails and under the tongue and eventually will 'shoot' into the neck and have even been known to use veins around the eyeball." " 'Perhaps the best-known effect of chronic stimulant administration is psychosis. Psychosis has been associated with chronic use of several stimulants; e.g., amphetamines, METHYLPHENIDATE (RITALIN), phenmetrazine and cocaine... [This] psychosis mimics paranoid schizophrenia or paranoia so closely that it has been misdiagnosed as such by experienced clinicians many times' " "As you will learn, psychosis is only the beginning of consequential adverse effects of altering, perhaps permanently, of Ritalin. States of extreme paranoia (where the person thinks all others are out to harm him or her) are common. Many very horrible crimes have been committed by people using Ritalin. Police in Vancouver recently reported crimes of all types were up in that city as a result of Ritalin use. The police chief said that 80% of the crime in Vancouver would cease if Ritalin could be taken off the market. This situation is now well underway in Europe and the US as well."
WARNING SUICIDE WARNING "The following warning is based on a study of the medical literature on the subject of Ritalin withdrawal and actual case studies:" "WARNING: According to the American Psychiatric Association, SUICIDE is the major adverse consequence of withdrawal from Ritalin and similar drugs. Suicides and attempted suicides by children on Ritalin have occurred when the drug was withdrawn or the dosage reduced. Suicides and attempted suicides have also occurred at normal dose levels without warning. Children should be watched for any signs of drug induced depression or other mental disturbance as these are common with the use of such powerful chemicals, particularly for periods lasting a week or longer. The effects of the drug may be cumulative within the brain and so the onset of adverse reactions such as suicidal thinking may be sudden and occur without warning. Special precautions should be taken during withdrawal or reduction in the amount used. Withdrawal or reduction of the amount of the substance used may also 'unmask' drug induced states of severe paranoid delusional or psychotic states which can last for a year or longer after the last use of the drug. For this reason, children on Ritalin may hide their feelings and thoughts so no one will interfere with their attempt to destroy themselves." "Psychiatrists are telling parents and teachers that, in effect, these children are 'mentally ill' or 'mentally disordered.' �They are told that the situation is desperate and that 'early intervention' in the form of 'medicine' is needed to 'save the child from a life of misery, criminality or worse.' " "Some parents and teachers are told that Ritalin will make it easier for the child to learn and retain data. This is also a false claim and is probably the biggest lie being promoted and told about Ritalin. Ritalin is not a 'smart pill.' In fact, it is the opposite of a 'smart pill'. The vast majority of children on Ritalin have either no improvement in their scholastic achievement or their actual achievement scores will deteriorate, sometimes drastically over time. "What is the long term outlook for children raised on Ritalin on a daily or almost daily basis? Exactly what you would expect if your child were raised on cocaine on a daily or almost daily basis. An American National Institute For Mental Health funded study, tells the sad tale:" "Rather than solving any problems, the mass drugging of America's school children has caused a massive crime wave and a wave of child suicide which has no precedent anywhere or any time in History. Prior to 1970, when Ritalin use began to be commonplace in our schools, child suicide was virtually unheard of. Today, it is an epidemic." " This data above has been acquired over a period of thirty years and is offered as a public service. Data related to specific drug effects are taken from authoritative medical and pharmaceutical references. " (Quotes are from the original.) Please read the original study by Dennis H. Clarke. Please note that nothing is offered for sale on this site. My purpose is to save this country for my children. Go Back to the List of Education Topics Go to the Uhuh opening Title Page
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