ADHD is a very rapidly growing part of
health care industry. The symptoms are varied, including: irritability, hyperactivity and behavioral problems. Many kids are so affected that they require some pretty hefty drugs to control them.I spoke at a medical conference in Denver in 2004. One of other speakers was a pharmacology researcher. He brought up a statistic that indicated that kids on Ritalin [one of prevailing drugs for ADHD] tend to become addicted to methamphetamines.
On radio other day, NPR was talking about giving these kids marijuana for symptoms.
What are we doing to our kids?
According to Psychology Department @ University of Tennessee, kids with TRUE ADHD average about 5-7% of a normal classroom. However, somewhere between 50% of kids in school today are diagnosed and treated for ADHD.
http://www.amenclinic.com/ac/news/add_educators.asp http://www.4-adhd.com/other-conditions.html http://www.4-adhd.com/greentimeadhd.html
What does this tell us? There aren't as many kids with ADHD as we are led to believe. Why are we drugging kids without true ADHD? Because these kids are a behavioral problem.
Surprisingly, we find that when we get rid of mold and toxic chemicals in a house, kids with ADHD in home tend to get better. Almost immediately they have to go off their drugs.
Case file: We consulted with a school on east coast. The school had sick kids [sinus infections and ADHD] and teachers [sinus infections and cancer]. The school board chose to do nothing. The people on school board had an agenda that didn't include health of kids.
Many of parents took their kids out of school to home-school.
Guess what?
