Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The last few years have blown wide open a scandal that has long existed but is not that well known aside from specialists. The problem is the collaboration between pharmaceutical companies, government regulators, and the medical industry. The problem is so vast that it is hardly describable in a short article.
It turns out that the ineffective COVID shots were just the beginning. As far as we know and have discovered in the course of investigations, the shot was developed quickly as a countermeasure to distract from the problem of a lab leak. The world’s population was held hostage for a year and more while the inoculation was rolled out. But once deployed, it became obvious that it could not actually block infection or stop the spread. So everyone got the bug anyway, and we are left with tremendous damage caused by the shots themselves.
I described this short history to Dr. Drew Pinsky, the famed addiction doctor who now has a popular video podcast. He found no fault with my scenario as mapped above. He immediately added that this has many parallels with the opioid crisis that led him into public advocacy. The pharma companies advertised some miracle drugs to fix pain with no risk of addiction.
The frenzy to prescribe was so intense that some doctors even feared penalties for not prescribing. The result of course was a disastrous addiction crisis that continues to this day. Unlike vaccine companies, the producers were not indemnified against payouts for harms, and as much as $50 billion ended up going to victims just last year. The numbers are mind-boggling.
Just when you think you have reached the bottom of this problem, new information comes along. Last night I was privileged to attend a talk by Sheila Matthews-Gallo who founded AbleChild, an organization that advocates for child rights against forced medicalization. Why would such a thing be needed? As it turns out, many if not most kids in public schools today face this threat daily. They can be identified as having ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
It turns out that there is nothing proven chemically to constitute ADHD. It is entirely a diagnosis applied based on behavior as identified throughout a checklist questionnaire. The checklist is about fidgeting, forgetting, boredom, finishing tasks, various acting up, expressions of frustrations, and so on. In other words, what we have here is a list of all the signs you might expect when boys in particular are told to sit perfectly still at a desk for months and years and complete tasks assigned to them by some authority figure.
With this kind of diagnosis, you are likely to rope in a vast number of kids, particularly the exceptional ones and those once considered to be “gifted and talented.” As it turns out, there is a vast industry working today to pathologize perfectly normal behavioral traits. It hits boys in particular very hard because, in general, they mature more slowly than girls and tend toward behavioral resistance to environmental adaptivity relative to girls.
For more on this amazing reality, see “The ADHD Fraud,” an eye-opening book.
What could be the purpose of such a diagnosis? You guessed it: there are drugs for this supposed problem. They have various names: Ritalin (methylphenidate), Adderall (amphetamine), Dexmethylphenidate, Lisdexamfetamine, Clonidine, and Atomoxetine. Not even one of them has been proven to be a chemical fix for any biological abnormality. They are all behavioral-adjustment drugs; that is, psychotropic drugs; that is, narcotics for kids.
Millions of kids take them, as many as 13 percent of teens. The rate grows higher in the college population. Some one in three adults are taking psychiatric meds. It’s getting worse. It starts in school.
Listening to all of this, I found myself astounded. And yet, in some ways, it fits with everything else we know. We have an industry here that is in a tight working relationship with government institutions like public schools, plus regulators, plus medical authorities that are throwing drugs at people with the promise of miracles but with results that actually ruin lives.
Think of how different your school years would have been if you had developed a drug addiction and lived off psychotropic meds from the age of 7. I was fortunately spared such a fate. But millions of kids today cannot say the same. It’s utterly astonishing. It strikes me that this is a scandal just waiting to be blown wide open.
Among the related factors, as RFK, Jr. has been pointing out in public lately, is the odd relationship between school shootings and the wide distribution of these drugs. Many cases we know about already but the medical records of others are being withheld, even though the public is more and more understanding that the real problem is not guns but pharmacological products. And yet the activists themselves are entirely focused on taking away guns rather than looking more deeply.
I have had personal experience with young adults who are addicted to Adderall. In many ways, when you are a college student, it seems like a miracle drug. In college, discipline over the use of time recedes into a low priority. Instead the demand is to turn in long papers on deadline, memorize vast material you can spit out on a test and forget the next day, and otherwise stay intensely focused sporadically. For many students, this drug is exactly what the doctor ordered: it permits hyper-focused all-nighters followed by a day or two of feeling like a zombie but no one notices.
I’ve known many people who develop addictions, not only physical ones but psychological ones: life without the drug seems dull by comparison and who wants that? These students carry this over into professional life and attempt the same pattern. They can work all day and stay up all night and achieve something that seems mind-blowing but not quite what you asked for. You ask for fixes and they don’t happen. In fact, you don’t hear from them for days after until they reemerge with no memory of the work they did. This pattern repeats itself.
I gradually came to learn that the real problem was the drugs. I concluded that I would rather have a moderately productive employee who at least had a steady pattern of labor and a mild recall of skills that could be built up over time. The issue is that when hiring someone, it’s not quite kosher to ask such questions as: what drugs do you take? You end up guessing, and sometimes guessing wrong.
I’m telling you from long experience that these drugs are a catastrophe for professional life. No one should ever take them. That’s my considered opinion in any case, and I frequently warn college students against them. And what’s true for college kids is thousands of times more so for high school and grade school. It’s a complete scandal that these drugs are given out like candy to school kids. Parents have every right and obligation to resist.
It’s all the more astonishing to learn, as I did last night, that there never was any science to the diagnosis of ADHD, any more than there was any science behind social distancing. It’s all made up to service the state and its adjacent players in the private sector who benefit from various mandates that somehow always end in drugging the population. The whole thing astounds me.
Think about the bigger picture. We’ve created these public schools, force the kids to attend them, ban them from any remunerative work, shove boys and girls together, impose uniform curricula as if every student learns at the same pace, take away discretion from teachers, and saddle the institutions with massive bureaucracies. When the kids don’t take well to the environment, we call them mentally ill and drug them up in ways from which state-connected pharma companies can profit.
This level of cruelty is really baked into the system. It’s a wonder any civilized society could ever accept it. And once you discover the fullness of the scandal about what’s going on, you have to start asking other questions about weight-loss drugs, other vaccines and miracle cures, and the entire machinery of allopathic medicine itself. Yes, the rabbit hole is very deep.
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we have been living wrong for a very long time, none of it is normal, they just think it is.
Stopped reading at “ineffective COVID shots…”
Painfully, this Obliviot doesn’t even grasp the scope and gravity of the problems at hand.
The COVID shots are meant to be the “Creme de la creme” of the elites depopulation plans for the Goyim…over.the next several years we will see premature deaths explode among covid-injectees, and no one will understand why. Has no one heard of “plausible deniability”????
And everything else the death-medical field is doing to us is intended to hasten our demise!
Once you understand that each and every seemingly crazy, nonsensical and disjointed action by the (((authorities))) is intended to outright kill, or rapidly hasten you, and your loved ones demise, suddenly, all these actions make sense!!!!
Right? And, BTW, the injections ARE (horrifyingly) effective. Plus, they’re unnecessary.
You meant Clonopin not Clondine.The withdrawals from Clonopin are worse than heroin
That crap is handed out like candy. Read the literature on it. Shouldn’t take it long term and should not take it if over 60. I know people that have been on it for years. My mother in law started abusing it, got pulled off if it and now needs 24/7 care. She was on it 15 years and has basically had a complete nervous breakdown/shutdown.
The whole pharma industry needs to die and those in it fed their poison until they do.
So are methamphetamines. And anti-anxiety meds. Alprazolam especially.
Well i do blame both the doctors and the drug industry. However, i also,as a former RN,can tell you that females LOOOOOVE them some drugs. They literally demand to be stoned outta their gourds on klonipen,ativan,valium,xanax,etc.etc. I greatly admire strong,competent feminine women,but i have dealt with many,many stupid,drugged up bitches during my career.
Two different drugs for two different “problems”.
clonazepam = Klonopin for anxiety
clonidine = Catapres for ADHD
I recommend staying away from both.
As a former RN,i totally agree. Eat healthy,moderate exercise, carefully chosen vitamin and mineral tablets,and,above all AVOID MODERN MEDICINE.
They have been drugging kids for a very long time. My cousin was told her son needed to be medicated because he was too active and she told the teacher that he was a normal boy and maybe it was she who needed the medication. This was the early 60’s
“If we use schooling to break children away from parents — and make no mistake, that has been the central function of schools since John Cotton announced it as the purpose of the Bay Colony schools in 1650 and Horace Mann announced it as the purpose of Massachusetts schools in 1850 — we’re going to continue to have the horror show we have right now.” ― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/41319.John_Taylor_Gatto
damn, I didn’t know I could hate the puritans even more
“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”― George Orwell, The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
Yes. I recall MY parents having to go educate the educators a couple of times myself! Great time to be an American!
Just teach the children to doodle. Fill in pie charts etc. That should keep them distracted enough from learning how to conjugate verbs before recess.
These days, they’re teaching kindergartners how to rectally conjugate tranny clowns.
And mandatory holohoax studies oy vey!
I was exposed to the air freshener Ozium once. I fell on the floor and began weeping for no reason. My arms and legs felt very weak. I am an adult. I can only imagine what that would do to a baby or small child’s nervous system. Many cleaners have strong odors that are hard on a child’s nervous system. Maybe the teacher is wearing a strong perfume. I would look for abusive smells or food allergies. Do some detective work on your own.
No need for detective work. Those air “fresheners” are chock full of neurotoxins. No secret there it takes a quick search engine query of those chemicals.
People now add fistfuls of dryer sheets to their laundry and it wafts into your window. Laundromats are virtually insufferable now.
I cannot stand to go down the laundry detergent aisle in the store. It is almost as bad as walking into a department store with the perfume counter right by the door.
Females smell everything,and want everything to smell. I built a small apartment in our back yard to get away from my wife’s candles,scented oils,air fresheners,etc.etc.
I see the Camp Lejune cancer commercials all the time encouraging people to sue for the contaminated water there from the early 50’s to the 90’s.
Can the kids and parents of these damaged kids sue the schools for pressuring parents to get their kids on these drugs?
I think my eldest son was injured by them.
The Houston ISD put enormous pressure on me to put my kid on them, and being a single parent when ex-wife Bernice split for greener pastures, I couldn’t take off work because of behavior problems. I was stuck.
Now I want those fucking teachers/principals to pay dearly.
I would settle for whipping them to death.
Don’t know about You.
Govt. NOT noted for being sued. Successfully. IF at all.
Curiouser & Curiouser by the day.
Might as well adopt a kitten?
Even if you win, it’s YOUR money you’re “winning”! Not theirs. So I ask you…what is the fucking point? It’s NOT going to get them off your back at all. They took your money once. What’s to stop them from doing it again?
Who were the Two LOONS that wanted to overthrow capitalism/cause economic collapse?
coward & pimpin’?
Richard A. Cloward, a Columbia University sociologist and advocate for the poor who stirred the welfare rights movement and was a force behind the 1993 Motor Voter Act that encouraged mass voter registration, died Sunday in New York of lung cancer. He was 74.
Piven was married to her long-time collaborator Richard Cloward until his death in 2001.[2] Together with Cloward, she wrote an article in the May 1966 issue of The Nation titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty” advocating increased enrollment in social welfare programs in order to collapse that system and force reforms, leading to a guaranteed annual income
Probably both Native American?
I suppose that’s loosely related to the topic at hand. To understand this as part of that process is not a stretch at all. I prefer to break my problems down into manageable chunks, but I suppose you’re not wrong in your assessment.
One of the lessons that folks have learned so far from the FauciFlu jabs is that the total lack of liability on BigPharma (PFE, MRNA, etc.) also seems to be extended to those who’ve given those jabs — i. e., the doctors, etc.
Time for all of the laws absolving BigPharma and BigMedicine (i.e., hospitals, etc.) from liability for these medications to come to an end … I mean, how many people will we tolerate being irrevocably harmed — even killed — without any liability attaching to anyone?
There was no lab leak. There was nothing to leak. There was nothing to spread. These write ups are pretty much mainstream narrative and they slowly let out some distractions.
You have been Emphatically consistent/persistent.
Wish in one hand…
This. And people comment about ADHD, accepting the frame. The article seems to be constructed around the narrative. Is it even about medication of children, or is it to feed that narrative again? Lab leak often here on TBP.
I worked in a treatment center for youths when I lived in Prince George. When we had a new arrival we would book an appointment with the kids doctor and and work a program of getting them off their meds, namely ritalin.
We were a high energy center where all activities and consequences (punishments) were high energy requirements. Slow removal of meds and high energy activities daily would take kids from vibrating, violent outbursts to calm and reasonable youth.
The majority of our clients went on to be reasonably adjusted adults. The alternative to not getting thru our program was a psych lockup or jail, and thankfully very few ended up in that state.
The worst ones pushing for these drugs… schools and social workers.
You were doing God’s work for those kids, Moos.
I had a part time job as a bartender at the Betty Ford Clinic.
The spoiled, ignorant, ill-mannered brats are annoying and need a good spanking. But that’s illegal. So, anything that shuts them up and makes a profit for corporations is acceptable.
No, the .gov schools need abolishing and the family needs strengthening. End the Fed, Monsamto, the wars, welfare, deport invaders, etc.
“The spoiled, ignorant, ill-mannered brats are annoying and need a good spanking.”
There is definitely something like ADHD out there, whatever the cause. The cause of mine was brain trauma. Stimulants on these people do not have the same effect on these people as they do “normal” people. ADHD is diagnosed by measuring attention and focus, not by some self-assessing questionnaire.
But these stimulants should not be used indefinitely. In fact, they may lead to things like Parkinson’s disease if over used or used inappropriately. I was on methylphenidate for years, and it helped, but it was a hassle and since I got off of it I am doing better than I was on it at the end. However, it was a miracle drug for me at the beginning of treatment.
My friend’s grandson is on it at 7 years old and I pity him, but there is nothing I can do that I haven’t done.
Same reason confined animals ‘need’ drugs.
I’m unsurprised that a libertarian would take this long to figure it out. The free market won’t be solving this problem.
I’ve seen people on Adderall type drug old enough to need easy open caps. One woman near 60 even said “I wish I could get off this stuff”. A whole lot of people are going to be saying that. The ONLY reason someone needs to take this is if they’ve had a BRAIN INJURY. Perhaps vaccines account for an increase but not nearly this much. It’s chemically almost identical to crystal meth.
WHY ARE THEY DRUGGING THE CHILDREN ?
This has been solved. Still enough people do not yet know however.
Bill Cooper wrote about this in his 1991 book , Behold A Pale Horse.
Here it is :
TO DISINTEGRATE THE FAMILY UNIT.
Amazing that it has taken people decades to catch on to this. When my youngun’ was starting school circa 2000, we had friends whose boys were diagnosed with this supposed condition. What total BS. Anyone could see it was a way to explain normal boy behavior as a ‘condition’ that would absolve the parents of needing to parent. This was the same era as peanut-butter allergies, and coddling children in every possible way. Sure, just drug your children to get the needed behavior, right? And no one sees the problem?
So 25 years later, a predictable epidemic of drug addiction, and now finally someone is connecting the dots to school shootings and the fact that the drugs do nothing to correct the ‘problem’ other than zombify children. And we wonder why society was so easily duped about ‘Covid vaccines’.
The drugging of boys in particular dovetails with the facts in ” THE WAR AGAINST BOYS ” by Christina Hoff Summers.
Healthcare is the biggest, most bloated, most wasteful industry in the country. Financial services and the national security state are both smaller.
In general, lifestyle choices that reduce drug use are beneficial, while over diagnosing and over medicating is not. But I think it’s equally important not to dismiss completely the fact that some folks really are wired differently (atypically) across a number of domains (giftedness, ADHD, ASD, learning differences, etc.).
In a society that is as authoritarian and systemitized and predatory to people who are different, for some subset of neurodivergent (or whatever label you like) people pharmaceuticals are a lifesaver in allowing them to fit in enough to earn a paycheck to buy food and pay rent and whatnot, not to mention keeping their head down to avoid/minimize dangerous run-ins with law enforcement and other agents of the state that expect neurotypical response times, organization, and deference.
Ritalin, Adderall, VyVanse, Straterra, etc. can be helpful for some people (with informed consent!) for ADHD specifically, and more broadly other drugs like Lamictal, BuSpar, Xanax, etc. really can be helpful for some people in some circumstances. The main issue here is monopoly pricing and over prescription. That’s entirely different from COVID where the entire concept of the vaccination campaign was a fraud. That’s more like ODD (operational defiance disorder) which schools/courts have used to coerce people into being drugged without active consent or even directly against their will.
People don’t need to be medicated to fit in. There are many occupations. Stop trying to force people to do jobs they don’t like by medicating them to fit in. Perhaps if you watched the show Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe you would understand that some people like to work outside. Others don’t mind getting dirty.
That’s easy to say when it’s not a survival issue. It’s much more nuanced when medication allows one to build/access skills that dominant society expects people to have.
I don’t disagree at all that there are lots of jobs that are valuable. I’m one of the voices suggesting that our society gives too much credence to the credentialed class, not too little.
One of the things I think a lot of Americans who got through their childhood/early adult years okay don’t understand is that increasingly it has been dangerous to make any kind of mistake or tick off anyone in a position of authority. There’s been a shrinking grace, diminishing margin for error, and this has been especially true for people who have differences among their sensory profiles, processing speeds, filter when dealing with authority, organization, time management, body boundaries, conflict resolution approaches, access to verbal skills under duress, etc.
The problem isn’t drugs themselves as one tool among many. It’s the monopoly pricing and related incentive to overprescribe (especially within the larger context where the whole point of many government systems is to create and maintain conformity and compliance).
I have deep respect for communities that truly act differently – and protect their children collectively from the excesses of the authoritarian state – like the Amish, some Christian Scientists, and Tribal nations/governments. But most people in mainstream society don’t have those larger protections against what has become a quite hostile, authoritarian system.
Lesson – AVOID ALL BIG PHARMA. I got caught in their spider web years ago until I read Dr Peter Breggin’s book, who writes: “COVID-19 and the Global Predator: We are the Prey book– which is one of the very first, and arguably the most thoroughly documented examination of the Global empires and the planning and execution that has been being done for decades. It is our opinion that our book and the globalism examination especially (plus the orientation that wrong has been done, not mistakes, not accidents, not stupidity, not groupthink etc) is why Dr. Malone has been intent on silencing us with that lawsuit.”
I replied: “I guessed this was the case, Peter & Ginger, you have my full support. I enjoyed your book for many reasons but one was of particular concern to me personally. You mentioned the toxic nature of Risperidone on pages 286-287 (among others). Last year I had been taking this drug for some years after a diagnosis of Bipolar disorder. [Now Peter has exposed the fraud of Bipolar Disorder involving a world-famous scientist who was paid by J&J to invent this condition!]. After noting your remarks and for historical reasons, I realised it was a misdiagnosis and rapidly dropped it having suffered no permanent ill effects.
However, the Risperidone side-effects had caused me disturbed sleep (Zopiclone) and anxiety (Diazepam) both of which I have never needed to use since. So I am in your debt for giving me a new lease of life, with an excellent sleep pattern and a return back to my old self of long ago, content and productively active pursuing my mission to Protect and Survive – I am 78.
I have a colleague in Australia, we work in tandem – he writes under BOOM Finance & Economics: http://boomfinanceandeconomics.com/#/ and contributes to a network: https://cmnnews.org/
Good luck with your mission – I walk in your shadow.
Here is one of Peter & Ginger Breggin’s Substack with many links:
https://gingerbreggin.substack.com/p/breggins-were-excluded-and-had-no?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=731509&post_id=134606397&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
ADHD is nothing more than the brain’s natural defense mechanism against being force fed bullshit without end. Remove the cause and the treatment becomes unnecessary.
My grandson was diagnosed with ADHD. The school wanted him medicated. I explained to his teachers that i was born in 1950,and while never diagnosed with ADHD; i had EVERY SYMPTOM THAT HE HAD. Boy didn’t need medication. My grandson needed a gym class or recess.