Showing posts with label PRESCRIBED DRUGS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PRESCRIBED DRUGS. Show all posts
6 Aug 2012
THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF PSYCHIATRY ... PRESCRIBED DRUGS AND VIOLENCE
Psychiatric Drugs and Violence
Ritalin, manufactured by Novartis, is the close cousin to speed which is given to millions of American schoolchildren for a condition called Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). ADD and ADHD, for which no organic causes have ever been found, are touted as disease-conditions that afflict the young, causing hyperactivity, unmanageability, and learning problems. Of course, when you name a disorder or a syndrome and yet can find no single provable organic cause for it, you have nothing more than a loose collection of behaviors with an arbitrary title.
Correction: you also have a pharmaceutical bonanza.
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