ADHD & Criminals

ADHD & Criminals: Drug Corporations Want To Create More Lifetime Customers





Susanne Posel
Nov 27th, 2012



Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
November 27, 2012





A new study
published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. William Cooper,
pediatrics and preventive medicine professor at Vanderbilt University,
claims that Ritalin and Adderall (two pharmaceutical drugs used to treat
ADHD) can prevent the mind of hyperactive children from becoming
criminals. Cooper contends that these drugs should continue to be
administered through adulthood to prevent criminal activity later in
life.

Cooper said: “There definitely is a perception that it’s a disease of
childhood and you outgrow your need for medicines. We’re beginning to
understand that ADHD is a condition for many people that really lasts
throughout their life.”

So far, 5% of the children in the US have been diagnosed with ADHD, a
psychiatric disorder wherein the non-medical opinion of a psychologist
that a child is hyperactive, impulsive, has difficulty paying attention
and therefore must be given pharmaceutical drugs so that “focus in
school” can be achieved.

The study analyzed court and prison records from 2006 – 2009 to
determine the number of those convicted who were on a drug to treat
SDHD; as well as the severity of their crimes. Only 10 control subjects
were entered into the study.

The findings showed:

• Thirty – seven percent of convicts were pre – diagnosed with ADHD
• It was likely that ADHD medication was used in 32% of male convicts and 41% of female
• ADHD suffers were likely to commit burglary or theft
• Four thousand of the 23,000 crimes researched were violent

Paul Lichtenstein, researcher into ADHD for the Karolinska Institute,
concurs with the findings of the study (although he had no part in the
research). Lichtenstein stated: “It’s well known that individuals with
ADHD have much higher rates of criminality and drug abuse than people
without ADHD.”

The Karolinska Institute is one of the leading
pharmacological research institutions that clarify the field of
clinical medicine with the push of the use of drugs to treat
physiological and psychological issues. Thirty percent of medicinal
training and 40% of medical academic research is conducted at the
Karolinska Institute in Sweden and all lectures are translated into
English and taught in universities in the US.

Dr. Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics
at the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center, confirms
through past research that adults who were diagnosed with ADHD as
children are more likely to:

• Get into driving accidents
• Consistently lose jobs
• Divorce spouses
• Be arrested or commit some criminal activity

Adesman admits that not all children marked as ADHD go on to become
criminals or divorcees, and that the majority of them simply grow out of
the behavior. Yet, Adesman still maintains that despite the fact that
ADHD is a phase of childhood that rarely carries into adulthood that
“collectively, people with ADHD are at risk for a range of poor
outcomes.”

According to
the National Institutes of Health (NIH), ADHD is treated with
stimulants such as Methylphenidate (Ritalin, Metadate, Concerta,
Daytrana), Amphetamine (Adderall), or Dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine,
Dextrostat). These drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) for children as young as 6 years old.

The accepted treatment of ADHD has a list of dangerous side effects such as:

• Being anti – social or withdrawn
• Feeling hopeless, worthless
• Extreme suicidal thoughts
• Panic attacks
• Insomnia
• Aggressive and/or violent behavior
• Sudden changes in mood/behavior

Dr. Fred Baughman, child neurologist and ADHD researcher states that the advent of ADHD diagnoses is a scheme
to sell more anti – psychotic drugs to young children by the
pharmaceutical corporations in conjunction with the psychiatric
community. Baughman insists that a normal development in children has
now been socially accepted as a neurological disorder that requires
psychiatric treatment.

Annually, Ritalin sales reach the billions and Adderall has
unquestionably surpassed the once leading drug treatment for ADHD to
become the drug of choice for pediatricians. However, doctors admit
that the children “grow out of the symptoms of ADHD” and that none of
the accepted pharmaceuticals actually cure the alleged disease.

Researchers, in keeping with the necessity for drugs to treat ADHD,
claim that video games, television, and genetics are the causes of the
“disease” while completely ignoring the chemical additives in processed
foods that would be heightening a normal function in the neurological
development of children.

Maida Galvez, M.D., director of pediatric environmental health at
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, explains that: “Scientific evidence is
limited to support the association between food additives and ADHD
symptoms. Although it is possible that a very small group of children
who are allergic to artificial colorings or preservatives may show
improvement in symptoms on restriction diets, evidence is insufficient
to recommend routine, widespread use of restriction diets to treat a
child’s ADHD symptoms.”

Artificial food coloring
in addition to the preservative sodium benzoate was shown in studies to
incited hyperactivity in children that had not been previously
diagnosed with ADHD.

Drug corporations that benefit from this scheme are:

1. Johnson & Johnson
2. Shire
3. Eli Lily

In 2010, there was an explosion of sales
for drugs treating ADHD to the extent that manufacturers could not keep
the drugs on the “shelf”. Without having a clear science of diagnosis,
any psychiatrist could (and did) deem as many children as possible with
this label for the sake of profits to the pharmaceutical industry as
well as lending credibility to the interpretive world of psychiatry
because this specialty analyses emotional responses and behaviors
without using scientific measurements or knowledge of causational
disturbances that are reflected in real, physical diseases.

ADHD is one of the most lucrative schemes concocted by the
psychiatric community in order to justify the development of
pharmaceutical drugs that were already in production.


Source:-
http://occupycorporatism.com/adhd-criminals-drug-corporations-want-to-create-more-lifetime-customers/