The up and coming zombie hoard...

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The wife and I have discussed this before- all these kids and adults on ADD type meds- when do they STOP taking it? They take it while they are adults and also give it to their kids? Where does it stop? If big pharma, the AMA and other "authorities" think it's o.k. to overmedicate people for everything and anything, how do you get off of the stuff? God forbid you just stop taking your fix right?

Yes I know some medications are legit, don't throw a tizzy. But when you have met so many young children that are decent, nice kids that are practically ZOMBIES because of the ADD meds they "have" to take, you get a little jaded on this topic.

Anyways, here is the article-

So Young and So Many Pills

More than 25% of Kids and Teens in the U.S. Take Prescriptions on a Regular Basis

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[Klayton]

wasn't there a recent study showing that the majority of diagnosed with ADD were misdiagnosed?

as for the other ones, there are SEVERAL studies showing that they are a result of concrete jungle syndrome

that is, people who have NEVER in their entire pathetic lives ever stepped barefoot on dirt/grass...

asthma: increase contact time with DIRT as a child to reduce risks of asthma

non-insulin diabetes/anti-depression/sleep aids/anti-hypertension: increase outdoor activities, and hide the PS3/Wii/XBox (your too physically out of shape)

non-insulin diabetes: new study shows that YES high fructose corn syrup IS used like regular sugar BUT is broken down slightly differently and the body becomes insulin tolerant because of this breakdown

anti-psychotic: stop buying your kids damn "kill 'em all" games, teach your child a gun is used for hunting, and family defense, not to kill the most bad guys on the PS3/Wii/Xbox ; as the saying goes, Santa really would never give a kid a gun for Christmas (forgot what movie that was in), oh, and some more church time wouldn't hurt, to include family saying grace at meal time (can you believe my neighbor wont let her kid eat with us any more because we made him bow his head to say grace with us,, he is only 3 y/o)

unknown number of organs effected: some studies now show that the food dye being used in almost ALL our food is actually causing long term damage to some organs (think 30+ years of use)

[arcangel911]

What worries me is the 30, 60, 90 day rules.....

Medication usually comes in a 30, 60, 90 day format. After SHTF, psych meds and heart meds are usually on a 30 day run without a valid prescription. 60 and 90 are usually your lower grade stuff that will keep and is not needed all the time. Pain Killers are also on a time frame.... but given after the whole 60 days (2 months) of no pills, I feel some will get better and others will die off.

As for kids on ADD meds, they will become as they were before all this began....... kids.

[Patriotic Sheepdog]

Millions of teenagers and adults (besides children) are on the ADD meds. It seems to me its the new "rave" thing. I had a psychiatrist as a patient just this week that spoke to one of my nurses when I was out of the room. My nurse told me that she (the psychiatrist) talked to her about her "hyperactivity" and suggested she should consider an ADD med. My nurse said that she wasn't sure she wanted too, and the psychiatrist said to her "well everyone is doing it now. It will make you feel better." Now, my nurse is busy and effecient, but not hyperactive. The nurse was appalled that the psychiatrist would even suggest it just off the cuff. We are also creating kids that will likely stay on the drug through adulthood.

Problem that I see is that we will have a bunch of drug starved people walking around after the fall. Some will be violent and some will be passive. Between the Prozac/Zoloft crowd, the ADD crowd, the Rx painkiller crowd, the illegal drug crowd, the gotta have my cigarette crowd, the alcoholic crowd, soda pop crowd (list goes on and on) we are likely to have our hands full...like we won't have enough to do.

[slingshot]

We are such a drug orientated society that it's no wonder illegal drugs are pouring into this country in the billions of dollars every year. As long as there are millions of users willing to pay billions of dollars, there will always be drug cartels, drug violence by users & dealers. The root cause is the users causing all of the mayhem here in the US, and across the border in Mexico. I like what the chinese did to address their opium user problems after they kicked the British sponsored drug trade out of their country. I read they executed over 5,000 users in one day. That put a serious dent in the drug trade in China! Of course, that would never happen in this country, we don't have the testicular fortitude to do something like that. Here, we provide methadone to the little darlings, free needles, etc. I know that a lot of politicians and local policemen are getting rich off of the drug trade. Has to be! When TSHTF, we will be facing those frantic dopeheads. Hmmmmm, that might be a good time to address the dopers, when we don't have a bunch of "Monday morning quarterbacks" looking over our shoulders!

[rhinoaa]

I'm over fifty and all the kids are grown with no kids and I wonder if I'm out of touch or if the younger generation has a screw loose. We took a good friend's 14 year old on vacation with us last year to baby sit and while there, we found out that he thought that zombies were real and he wanted to shoot some. And I'm not talking about what we call zombies; he really thinks that zombies are real. He is a sweet, polite kid that we have never had any problems with, but I have to wonder how in the world he missed the boat on this! And no, he wasn't just jerking our chain; the look on his face showed he was serious.

I sure hope that this was an isolated incident and our young people aren't that far outside reality.

[KirkMcquest]

I worked in the special ed division of a public school years ago. These kids were seriously messed up. I've seen both sides of the coin with meds....I've seen kids go from impossible, screaming, and dangerous to calm and happy almost overnight. At the same time some kids would be taken off meds (after many years) and flip out ( one kid busted my head with a rock after being off meds for 4 days ).

Unfortunately, the meds never work indefinitely. Like all drugs, the user builds an immunity and it takes more and more to get the same effect. "Doctors" get around this by switching kids from one med to another when they stop working....ultimately, common sense would tell us that there must come a burnout point after the kid has cycled through most of the available meds and has built up a tolerance to all these drugs. What is the long term effect of this on the brain? The scary thing is that nobody knows.

[Spock]

Kirk I think we have been seeing the results. what happens is the kid is so messed up in the head he raid dads gun collection takes it to school and makes the national news. a few years ago I saw document that showed almost all of the school shooters were on some type of psychotropic drug at the time.