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Interestingly enough, it is my understanding the schools are incentivized to get kids on meds like these because they’re then declared special needs or some such rot and the school gets money from the government to give them special attention. It is a circular spiral that cannot be escaped. Schools live to label these kids(mostly boys) as hyperactive and in need of drugs. It is disgusting.

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Boys need to burn off energy. They need physical activity. Putting a boy at a desk a d telling him.timsit down & shut up for 7 hours a day is the problem. They have trailers for mentally disabled kids, tutors & special classes for the gifted. But the kids who physically cannot sit still through no fault of their own? Well, they get drugged and labelled. It's wrong.

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Jun 16, 2023·edited Jun 16, 2023

"May actually". These drugs do NOT solve the problem. These physiological health issues are due to heavy metals in the body namely an overload of copper which is called copper toxicity. Copper toxicity is due to many factors: epigenetics, copper water pipes, copper iuds, even vegan diets (due to there being more copper in vegetables, legumes, etc then zinc) and stress. When copper doesn't bind to the proper protein in the body which is called ceruloplasmin it is then unbound. This unbound copper goes to the tissues of the body including the brain and the liver. The liver might have a hard time getting rid of the excess copper because of genetics, stress, or bad lifestyle (not in children except for possibly and most likely the food they are eating if it contains a lot of sugar or is not organic/biodynamic which would put stress on their organs and their gut microbiome) and so the excess copper ultimately ends up in different tissues of the body causing all kinds of harm including ADHD (see link below). Most people have an issue with copper toxicity. If anyone has experienced PMS, breast or prostate cancers, hormonal issues, depression, etc. (the list is very long) they probably have this copper toxicity issue.

One has to detox the copper out of the body properly along with other heavy metals that are there, such as aluminum, mercury, arsenic, etc. in order to heal the health issue. The heavier metals, such as, lead and mercury are detoxed first then copper follows.

Copper Toxicity and ADHD

https://www.htmaexperts.com/copper-toxicity-and-adhd/

More on copper toxicity (overload): https://www.coppertoxic.com/

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It's abuse by the teachers, parents and pediatric psychiatrists.

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Good Doctor I believe every FDA approved drug should be investigated now.. All the so called Trials because as we have seen with CV-19, the FDA, CDC, ABIM, Drug companies none of them can be trusted ever again. Drugs do not cure anything anyway, that is not these drug companies business model, they just want to make money off your disease and treat the symptoms until you die and get their residual monthly money, they should be banned but in capitalisms anything that someone can make money from is allowed, even though its no good for anybody and the things that should be main streamed allowed like naturopathic and holistic and herbs and vitamins, minerals, homeopathic, are semi regulated almost out of existence by the FDA to help the drug companies not have any competition that would hurt their money and stop them from killing people slowly.. Shameful in plain sight.

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My youngest son has severe adhd. We tried several of these drugs on him and they did nothing to help him. We took him off all of the drugs and found an excellent child psychologist who helped him enormously. I would never recommend drugs for this situation.

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So sad and true. Teachers lack the knowledge and teaching skills to deal with kids that have ADHD and add tho the chaos that goes on in these kids life. There are lots of great therapies out there if the parents could take the time to research. And the problem of big pharma parading through pediatricians offices with samples of stimulant meds to pass out and to their patients. It’s at epidemic proportions.

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smart drugs smat apps etc ARE NOT SO SMART

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I watched that crap happen in the 1990’s. Had teachers telling parents their child had whatever alphabet concoction they could come up with and needed to go on Ritalin. Saw it all the time. Parents went rushing right off to the doctor to get a RX.

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Most drugs are worthless and do extreme damage to your body. This is why there are so few truthful trials and studies and the long term implications of taking drugs are never studied. Ever wonder why your body has strange reactions to drugs? It's because they are toxic and your body hates them.

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Prioritize animal-based protein; cut carbs, and fuel with traditional fats. (Traditional fats are those that humans consumed before the Industrial Revolution.)

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Thanks Paul for another great article on such an important topic. As you know, Dr. Peter Breggin is an expert on psychiatric drugs and he would agree with your message since he has testified before Congressional committees and in legal cases about the dangers of psychiatric drugs and how they can cause permanent brain damage.

I recently read this tragic story about a 12 year old girl in Oklahoma who stabbed her younger brother to death. She had been on ADHD medication for five years and had a manic episode. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12152627/Girl-stabbed-brother-ADHD-medication-five-years-mom-reveals.html

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They put me on Ritalin in boarding school. I went nuts and threw tables and chairs at the teacher. I was then expelled. These days I make my own coconut cannabis oil, just eat it. :-) . Life is good!

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Dr. Carl Hart has always been clear that Ritalin is pharmacologically identical to street methamphetamine.

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Wow!! 😩🤬

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It's always been just common sense to me that any drug can only lower IQ, retention, abilities, etc. If a kid is drugged, he or she is drugged!

Regardless of any minor benefits these psychototropic drugs might have (and they have little to no benefits), they cause more harm than good.

These are MIND-ALTERING drugs! So of course they lower productivity.

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