SubscribeStudies of students at colleges report that a whopping 16% or more had tried Ritalin. This sort of thing was unheard of back in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
With drug company profits in excess of $3 billion per year for ADHD drugs alone, I’m almost inclined to post a link to a picture of what a real drug kingpin looks like…
These guys are so powerful, they have literally changed the medical textbooks and curriculum so that doctors are currently taught that 10% of school age kids now have a “disease” called ADHD which requires expensive medication to treat…
For those who doubt, an absolutely shocking statistic was recently revealed by the Washington Post in April 2006:
- Of the 170 experts who contributed to the bible that defines psychiatric diseases (the Diagnositc and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- the DSM), more than half had financial ties to the drug companies that sell medications for those illnesses
“I don’t think the public is aware of how egregious the financial ties are”, said Lisa Cosgrove, who published her findings in the journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
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