Opinion | Big Pharma benefits from keeping America’s children drugged WashTimesOpEd
We can’t even begin to enumerate the number of children who have been regularly stimulated by a highly addictive drug to control their behavior. The National Center for Biotechnology Information acknowledges that 1 in 20 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with ADHD and treated with amphetamines. The numbers are most likely higher.
As a mother and aunt of young adults who have struggled for many years with meth addiction, I am so angry to learn that innocent children are prescribed this drug. It is more urgent to me now than ever that we sound the alarm to stand against this injustice on children and society. I have another adult relative whose life has been utterly destroyed by addiction to prescribed ADHD stimulants and antidepressants for 30 years.
The winner in this scheme is Big Pharma. They make all the profit from too many prescriptions for too many children. This routine should sound familiar after the profit reports from Big Pharma in recent years for any number of products pitched incessantly by the medical community. Other good sources are Dr. Marc Siegel and Dr. Peter Breggin, who have written extensively about the serious problems with prescribing antidepressants and amphetamines to young children to treat ADHD.
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