it's no surprise that young people are being over prescribed to Adderall and
Ritalin for
ADHD but it turns out that children as young as
2&3 are being prescribed these hardcore prescription drugs for their
ADHD now it's a little bit of an issue because there haven't been many studies
done in order to
determine whether or not this is gonna have any long-term or even short term
health consequences for these kids
but it doesn't matter there are as many as 10,000 children Tyler specifically
that have been diagnosed with ADHD and have been given
these very strong drugs now this is according to a study that was done by
the CDC
let me give you more details some 10,000 toddlers and by the way could be as many
as 15,000
across the US are being diagnosed as hyperactive and receiving drugs
such as Ritalin and Adderall the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
announced a new report
now are some doctors are really alarmed by this news in fact one doctor says the
following:
there's no evidence that it works there's no evidence that it's safe
these are desperate measures and so
part of the problem is you know there haven't been enough studies and we don't
know what the impact is going to be
and we already have a problem with hour on ritalin
being prescribed to too many people to give you a sense about
while the US makes up four percent of the world's population it uses a
whopping seventy percent
the world outer all and Ritalin and that could have a lot to do with
pharmaceutical companies
getting nice and cozy with doctors kinda convincing them to over prescribe these
drugs
obviously we have over diagnosed
people in this country and that's leading to a big problem but to know
that haha blurs are being given these drugs incredible speed
and the way like six pounds because I'm not saying you can embed
exactly yeah it sucks I i went on a forum:
a mothers talking about like you know I recently started giving made my toddler
ritalin or are thinking about it
and then they were like some of them were were so scared for their kid about
what effect it could have because they were told that you get 'em
some were angry because it wasn't working and I like you more and more it
doesn't work
and some were extremely pissed off that people are coming in and saying you guys
are insane you can get speed two toddlers
and so it's a it's an issue that is extremely personal to them obviously to
help them their kid
and yet I can't imagine a lot of people you know who are doing it would support
it seems so
risky why would you take the chance when you're talking to me like that the baby
having too much energy
which is good my opinion that or maybe is right right a move around a lot make
noise what I found or whether I should say with the CDC found
was that does on medicaid were much more likely impact they make up a majority of
this population
and part the problem is you know if you're on medicaid obviously
your lower socioeconomic status and you don't necessarily have the resources to
deal with an unruly kid
now I'm pediatricians recommend going to
about counseling sessions going through education programs in order to help
you know the deal with the rambunctious kid and that's kinda the real you know
wealthier people have the resources to do that but if you're poor
you have the time and you don't have the money to go through it so this is kind
of like a new jerk reaction or a quick fix
yeah I mean I don't drop the f-bomb on the main show that often but this is
seriously fucking sick
like that they are drug aimed at children it is simple as that
I baby HD so here's this is what they say to the symptoms of ADHD are
per kid trouble paying attention controlling impulsive behaviors
overly active and they can cause problems go home any advice
any less growing up it's called growing up we have people here right now you
whatever don't like that exactly where yet I'll that's what life is about that
then learn to control your impulses that is
were becoming a human is all about yeah and we're drugging
two-year-old to stop having emotions that are the most human think that you
could possibly have
this is seriously deranged with their literally rewiring their reads these
drugs rewire your brain and that you're gonna put them out
you know that but now the world addicted to drugs because these drugs are
addicting you can just stop tragically Carey
family funeral for ten years and suddenly when you're fourteen
and Europe slightly old enough to make a decision may be on your own that's still
kinda young
you can't just magically say no I one of the you handle your withdrawals we are
taking out around your basis absolutely in
and you don't think these are down there making the decision for their children
and that's obviously understandable but they should know the long-term
ramifications are doing this
and I think addiction is probably the most clear
example of what could happen to these kids later on are
one point I really wanted to make quickly is the fact that we have this
in saying insane double standard in the country when it comes to drugs right so
we have something like marijuana and I know we bring up marijuana lot on the
show but I just wanna show you how egregious this is right
we just a story about a 19-year-old Texas who was
selling hash brownies are right here hash oil in order to make the brownies
he is facing a minimum of five years behind bars and you could
get unlike sentence for that offense now it's unlikely he's gonna get a life
sentence but its taxes you never know
yeah and so that mean a nineteen year old who's
baking and handing out pot brownies and another hit on another hand we have
legalized amphetamines here because pharmaceutical companies push them
and it's totally okay for 2-year-old to take that there's nothing wrong with
that
but there's something wrong but nineteen-year-old baking and selling pot
brownies by the way with the pop ready story it's actually more
agreed it's been even you're saying because they're also charging him with
the way to the entire popular around here not just the way
the marijuana that went into it initially relieve its soda range we're
so back where does that mean obviously we do with it up all the time
just dragging kids be deadly at the womb you will be drug-addicted
by the time you don't you will never get off the drugs so it makes sense that the
pharmaceutical companies want to keep the money and other things to supplement
the model and get them in the mail
the hell they think they need many causes insomnia so then you take
the ambien and then you have
unison but also you take groggy in the morning he is a lot of %eh like yeah
know if he was a sense that what adderall does and what some of the side
effects I mean they're serious side effects you sometimes get heart
palpitations
are you sweat profusely I it could
it dehydrates you that's actually one of the biggest side effects of the drug
yeah insomnia you lose weight actually completely destroys your appetite so
having toddlers no not eating normally because they're taking these drugs
is a disaster because it could stunt their growth it could really have
you know long-term health impact leader in the future so
long-term obviously means later the future but were you well as so as you
alluded to early on there are not a lot about recent studies looking at the
effective using Ritalin Adderall
on got top human toddlers but I love any excuse to go trawling for academic
journals as I did that and I found studies
love the what it what happens when you zoom in rats when they're very young
what effect it has on the brain development
there was a study in Harvard Medical School I 2004 they found that early
exposure to reduce Ritalin and Adderall
lead to reduced ability to experience pleasure and pain that more likely to
expand
express despair like symptoms during stressful situations
and lead to long-term depression a study in the Netherlands found that led to
cortical thinning
the the actual physical structure brain developed differently if you've been
exposed to it too
at a role in berlin when you were young now granted that's like humans but it's
not a good sign for the humans
yes it should be used for the reasons prescribe wages to crush a bit snort
before you to be tested rage
exactly