ADHD Not a Real Disease, Says Leading Neuroscientist

Alex Pietrowski

One of the world’s leading pediatric neuroscientists, Dr. Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D, recently stated publicly that Attention Deficit/Hyper-Activity Disorder (ADHD) is not ‘a real disease,’ and warned of the dangers of giving psycho-stimulant medications to children.

Speaking to the Observer, Dr. Perry noted that the disorder known as ADHD should be considered a description of a wide range of symptoms that many children and adults exhibit, most of which are factors that everyone of us displays at some point during our lives.

“It is best thought of as a description. If you look at how you end up with that label, it is remarkable because any one of us at any given time would fit at least a couple of those criteria,” he said.

Doctors Giving Veterans Questionnaire to Determine Mental Illness

Infowars.com
September 10, 2010

The FederalJack website has posted a video and form today revealing how the government is attempting to categorize veterans as mentally ill. The video and form follow.

In 2007, HR 2640 was introduced by notorious gun grabbers Carolyn McCarthy and Patrick Leahy, both Democrats (Leahy introduced his bill in the Senate).

“Anyone who is diagnosed as being a tiny danger to himself or others would have his gun rights taken away … forever. It is section 102(b)(1)(C)(iv) in HR 2640 that provides for dumping raw medical records into the system,”Larry Pratt, executive director of of Gun Owners of America, wrote when the bill came to light. “Forget the fact that people with PTSD have the same violent crime rate as the rest of us. Vietnam vets with PTSD have had careers and obtained permits to carry firearms concealed. It will now be enough for a psychiatric diagnosis (a ‘determination’ in the language of the bill) to get a veteran barred — for life — from owning guns”

On June 13, 2007, the bill was passed in the House and on December 19, 2007, the Senate version was passed.

Fresh food that lasts from eFoods Direct (Ad)

Now the doctors are told they have to fill out the “Patient Health Questionnare” (sic) below. If this is in fact a legitimate document, it will facilitate the effort to disarm America’s veterans.

Live Superfoods It is time to Wake Up! You too, can join the "Global Political Awakening"!

Print Page 

Marijuana better than pharmaceuticals at treating chronic pain and improving mood

Jonathan Benson
Natural News

Experts from different persuasions often argue about the alleged benefits of using marijuana for pain relief, but a new study out of McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and McGill University (MU) has conclusively found that cannabis, the genus name for marijuana, is better than pharmaceutical drugs at relieving chronic neurological pain, and without all the harmful side effects.

Appearing in the latest issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the study reveals that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active ingredient in marijuana that gives it psychoactive and analgesic properties, is linked to relieving chronic pain, improving mood and inducing better sleep in those with severe neurological pain.

Patients who took a single inhalation of marijuana smoke three times a day experienced moderate pain reduction within just a few days. The effects were more pronounced with marijuana containing ten percent THC versus varieties with less than ten percent.

"This is the first trial to be conducted where patients have been allowed to smoke cannabis at home and to monitor their responses, daily," explained Dr. Mark Ware, lead author of the study, Director of Clinical Research at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit at MUHC, assistant professor of anesthesia in McGill University's Faculty of Medicine and neuroscience researcher at the Research Institute of the MUHC.

Read Full Article

Live Superfoods It is time to Wake Up! You too, can join the "Global Political Awakening"!

Anatomy of an Epidemic

Bruce Levine
ZMagazine

Robert Whitaker, a former Boston Globe reporter, was curious about why there has been such a large increase of disabling mental illness in the United States. His book,Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America(Crown Publishers, 2010), begins with these data points: in 1987, the U.S. mental illness disability rate was 1 in every 184 Americans, but by 2007 the mental illness disability rate had more than doubled to 1 in every 76 Americans.

During this same time period, there has also been a huge increase in psychiatric drug use. Prior to 1988 when Prozac hit the market, the annual U.S. gross for antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs was less than $1 billion, but today those two classes of psychiatric drugs alone gross more than $25 billion a year in the United States. The question for Whitaker was: is it just a coincidence that disabling mental illness and psychiatric drug use have been rapidly increasing at the same time?


Whitaker does not discount cultural factors that may have something to do with this dramatic increase in mental illness disability. However, he discovered that the most scientifically identifiable factor for the increase of severe psychiatric problems is the increase in psychiatric drug use. He identified a frightening trend: long-term psychiatric drug use has caused children and adults with minor emotional problems to have severe and chronic disorders that result in mental illness disabilities.

Read Full Article

RELATED ARTICLE:
"Brave New World" Psychiatry Pushing Nerve Drugs

Live Superfoods It is time to Wake Up! You too, can join the "Global Political Awakening"!

Who Is Generation Y?

Who Is Generation Y?

Defining the current generation of twenty and thirty year olds is a controversial task for psychological researchers. Some say Gen Y is selfish and insensitive while others disagree. The New York Times analyzes current attempts to define the the post-X generation: "In short: Generation Y’s collective personality, if such a thing exists, is not likely to be much different from other generations’. Still, small differences may matter, and there is some agreement in findings from psychologists on both sides of this debate. In his own research, Dr. [Antonio] Terraccianom [a psychologist at the National Institute of Aging] has found a slight decrease in trust over the generations and a slight increase in a something called 'ascendancy,' or 'competence'—a self-professed confidence in getting things done."

READ IT AT THE NEW YORK TIMES