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BREAKING THE VOW OF SECRECY

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Anonymous:
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... orum=9&203

Teen Advocates USA:
Here's an excerpt from one of the best articles I have read on how and why it came to be that millions of America's youth are being drugged into compliance with their parents and teachers.

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This mention of Schedule II drugs brings us to a second reason for the Ritalin explosion in this decade. That is the extraordinary political and medical clout of CHADD, by far the largest of the add support groups and a lobbying organization of demonstrated prowess. Founded in 1987, chadd had, according to Diller, grown by 1993 to include 35,000 families and 600 chapters nationally. Its professional advisory board, he notes, "includes most of the most prominent academicians in the add world, a veritable who?s who in research."

Like most support groups in self-help America, CHADD functions partly as clearing-house and information center for its burgeoning membership ? organizing speaking events, issuing a monthly newsletter (Chadderbox), putting out a glossy magazine (named, naturally enough, Attention!), and operating an exceedingly active website stocked with on-line fact sheets and items for sale. Particular scrutiny is given to every legal and political development offering new benefits for those diagnosed with add. On these and other fronts of interest, CHADD leads the add world. "No matter how many sources of information are out there," as a slogan on its website promises, "chadd is the one you can trust."

One of CHADD?s particular strengths is that it is exquisitely media-sensitive, and has a track record of delivering speedy responses to any reports on Ritalin or add that the group deems inaccurate. Diller quotes as representative one fundraising letter from 1997, where the organization listed its chief goals and objectives as "conduct[ing] a proactive media campaign" and "challeng[ing] negative, inaccurate reports that demean or undermine people with add." Citing "savage attacks" in the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, the letter also went on to exhort readers into "fighting these battles of misinformation, innuendo, ignorance and outright hostility toward CHADD and adults who have a neurobiological disorder." The circle-the-wagons rhetoric here appears to be typical of the group, as is the zeal.

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Source: WHY RITALIN RULES By MARY EBERSTADT

Read entire article here:

http://www.policyreview.org/apr99/eberstadt.html

Anonymous:
well the url you pointed to seems to indicate Dr. Friedman as rather new to them... Lets not jump the gun...

Antigen:
Deb, I have the same concern. But I'm not at all surprised. This is just exactly what I expected when I heard a congresscritter was taking up the cause. Not that Miller is necessarily a bad guy. I've heard from a good many people that he's an unusually decent sort of fellow who understands the issue as well as anybody. But the ground rules of the political game dictate that everyone w/ and interest in the industry and some cash and/or influence to invest is going to belly up to the bar.

Naturally, the pill pushers and the bible thumpers and the LGA moonies and everyone else who has The Answer® to sell us will want to play.

Is there any substance to the rumor that PURE is mucking around in the background here? I honestly don't know, but I would expect it. Wouldn't you?

Brace yourselves, it promises to get worse. Much worse.

What does surprise me is that we have some involvement of people who have firsthand experience in the industry; parents, kids and outsider therapy staff. I hope they get someone on board who really gets it; who was thoroughly brainwashed, peer staff and who has shaken it off.

Also, Kenny Boy's behavior is surprising. You'd think that he'd do just what he did w/ the Utah licensing legislation; play ball, buy some loopholes then go along his merry way taking credit for having supported the idea all along; "What? Nothing to see here, we're totally in compliance (cuz we're a school). Why, didn't you know? We helped craft that law!"

So, what gives? Why is Kenny showing his ass already in the first inning? I suppose he's been under a lot of pressure lately. Poor dear.

In any event, we the unwashed masses do have a bit of influence on the process, even from the sidelines. The ASTART people seem open to input for the time being. At the very least, they are bringing the issue before some more heads. I'm not really expecting much. I still think this is an effect of the culture war and it'll be a good many years before we can turn it around, if we ever are able to do that.


Either cocaine and marijuana are terribly dangerous substances, and breaking the law by consuming them is a major offense that should be severely punished, or these are minor, personal matters that do not really count in the big picture of a man's life. If the latter is the case, then the rationale for a bloody, costly and futile war against drugs simply disappears.
--Jorge G. Castaneda, Newsweek International, September 6, 1999
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Anonymous:
http://www.bazelon.org/newsroom/10-18-05briefing.htm
A START, a multi-disciplinary taskforce coordinated by the Florida Mental Health Institute and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, has studied the increased marketing of unlicensed and unregulated residential programs to desperate families as the best treatment for their children?s mental health needs.

?Residential treatment facilities should be reserved for children and youth whose dangerous behavior cannot be controlled except in a secure setting,? concluded Tammy Seltzer, senior staff attorney at the Bazelon Center. ?They should not be opportunities for unscrupulous and unaccountable entrepreneurs to get rich quick at the expense of children and families who need responsible and effective mental health treatment. We ask Congress to protect children and families by improving access to appropriate mental health treatment and increasing oversight of those who only pretend to have children?s best interests at heart.?

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