New look at ADHD drugs shows millions of kids being used as guinea pigs
It’s the largest and most dangerous medical experiment ever performed on kids.
And none of them know they’re participating!
If your child or grandchild has been diagnosed with ADHD, you were probably told that a magic drug like Ritalin or Concerta was the answer to your prayers. And how just a couple pills a day would help him do better at school and even make more friends.
But the only “magic” behind these meds is how they ever got to the market to begin with.
Because a shocking new report proves that the same ADHD drugs the mainstream hands out like Christmas candy have never been studied — or proven safe — for long-term use in children.
And that makes our kids human lab rats in an experiment that has already turned deadly.
Matthew Smith was just 14 years old when he died suddenly.
And the cause listed on his death certificate will probably come as a shock to the millions of parents whose kids take ADHD meds.
Long-term Ritalin use.
As I’ve been telling you for years, the prescribing of ADHD drugs has gotten out of control. There are more than 3.5 million American kids taking them right now, and some of them are babies who haven’t had their first birthdays yet!
The customers just keep getting younger — and that’s despite the fact that hundreds have already died on the meds.
Now the mainstream wants us to believe that deaths like Matthew’s were accidents — horrible tragedies that couldn’t have been predicted.
But from where I sit, what’s really happening practically amounts to murder. These kids were left to die by drug companies and a government that cared more about selling pills than keeping them safe.
You see, researchers from the Cochrane Review — a group of independent scientists from around the world — took a look at the science that supposedly proved these ADHD meds were safe for kids. And it held about as much water as a thimble.
First, most of the studies on methylphenidate (the generic name for Ritalin) were either funded by Big Pharma or were so poorly designed that the results were easily skewed.
No surprise there, right?
But I hope you’re sitting down for this one. Turns out that the research into this med involved kids taking it from just one day — that’s right, a single day — to an average of two-and-a-half months!
And they expect our kids and grandkids to stay on these drugs for years!
That means that the millions of kids now being prescribed methylphenidate are, in fact, guinea pigs in the only real study ever conducted on its long-term use.
And this is an experiment that Big Pharma and our government know is costing lives.
It’s been nine whole years since an FDA panel met to discuss the possible heart dangers of stimulant meds like Ritalin. They were so appalled by what they found that they demanded that the drugs come with a black box warning about the risk of sudden death.
Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Dr. Steven Nissen, one of the top heart docs in the world, said at the time he had “grave concerns” about the harms these meds could cause.
But the FDA kept them on the market — and since that time, millions of young kids have been saddled with prescriptions.
And just two years ago the FDA issued a warning about methylphenidate and priapism — that’s the long-term erection you usually hear about in Viagra ads. It can happen in boys of any age taking this drug, even those who haven’t reached puberty yet.
Priapism can cause everything from serious pain to gangrene. And, as the FDA pointed out, young boys may be too embarrassed to tell anyone.
No kidding.
But the real embarrassment here should be on the part of the FDA.
To allow such a horribly dangerous drug on the market that can be legally prescribed to babies — kids who aren’t even potty trained yet — should be criminal.
If your child has been diagnosed with ADHD, the first thing you should do is read this eAlert from our archives.
It contains Dr. Allan Spreen’s protocol for treating these problems without drugs. And it may surprise you to discover what some of the most common causes of hyperactivity are.
Sources:
“Evidence that Ritalin and similar drugs help children with ADHD is weak, study finds” Susan Perry, November 30, 2015, The Minn Post, minnpost.com
