geauxtohell
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Does the concept of operating under another licensure via standing orders escape you teach?
Again. Psychologists can't even write for drugs under a psychiatrist's or another physician's license. Psychologists are trained in counseling and have no formal training in pharmacology or medical management of psychiatric disorders.
They are not the mental health equivalent of a nurse practitioner or a physicians assistant. It's a separate profession.
One would think you'd only need venture out into your own hometown to realize all those psych shingles hanging are affiliates
No they aren't. Psychologists don't have to practice under another license. Perhaps you are confused, because they often work in concert with a psychiatrist. However, they don't have too.
bt i digress, obviously the thread is in need of suppoprting views .....
The ADHD Industry - ADD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Ritalin - Psychiatric Labeling
Doctors, pharmaceutical companies, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, pediatricians, family practitioners, tutors, and schools all own a piece of this industry. Once a major American industry exists, it just keeps on growing.
Let's stop right there. Surely you can do better than a blatantly biased webpage that refers to ADHD as an "industry"?
With the industry driving the market, the goal is no longer to fix the problem, but to continue to treat the symptoms.
That's the goal with most psych disorders. Have you ever heard of someone being cured of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder? No. It's not that the desire isn't there, it's just that the capability isn't there.
People tend to not understand that about psychiatry. They seem to think psych disorders are like a simple infection that can be fixed with the right medications. That is not the case. Lest you be too hard on psychiatrists, diabetes and a whole slew of other pathologies also can't be cured. They can only be managed.
At least with ADHD, there is a chance that the child will outgrow it.
This process generates money for those in the industry. If you fix the problems creating the symptoms, all of the revenue-producing drugs and services would go away. There would be no need for them.
I agree to an extent. When do we outlaw television, video games, and all the other things that condition our children to be in a state of hyperarousal?
with me so far teach?
Of course. You really haven't dropped anything novel (or that I haven't seen before).
The DSM-IV is the official "bible" of psychiatry. Every year the list of "mental illnesses" and "disorders" expands.
As is the case with every field of medicine. Why is this even surprising?
BTW, the DSM-IV is about to be replaced by the DSM-V.
In every case a package of symptoms are labeled as a "disorder" or "illness". Often, basic physiological situations, such as "drug addiction" or "drug withdrawal" are reclassified as "mental illnesses", or routine problems with life and/or the mind are labeled as "mental illnesses", such as "depression", "anxiety" and "attentional disorders". In all cases, the psychiatrists assume that the causes of all the "diseases" they invent
Psychiatrists invented substance abuse? That's just shocking!
And absurd. This is just duplicitous speech. It's not that psychiatrists have invented new diseases, it's that they are interested in treating parts of the human condition that have always existed. The line between personality and disorder has always been a tough debate in psychiatry. However, if someone who is suffering from a mental illness that is bothering them or their loved ones can be treated for it, regardless of whether you deem it as real or not, why the fuck do you care?
If you hate psychiatry, then don't utilize it.
are biological, and treatable with drugs and electric shock. This is false, but a major part of their "official party line" or "orthodoxy". The members of the committee who put the DSM together actually "vote" on what should and shouldn't be in the book! Homosexuality used to be in the book until too many people complained about this. "Mental diseases" can go "in" and "out" of style depending on how the committee feels.
It is important for them to get as many "illnesses" into the book as possible, because once in the book, insurance companies base claim payments to doctors and hospitals on the book. If it isn't in the DSM, the rest of the psychiatric related communit doesn't view it as "official".
Wait a minute. New versions (or at the least "revisions") to the DSM only occur every 25 years or so. The DSM IV was published in 1980. You just claimed that diseases were "invented" every year for billing purposes. Now you state that it has to be in the book for psychiatrists to get paid.
So which is it?
Do you even know what you are talking about?
Find out for yourself what a sham the DSM is, comprised of faulty observations, strong biopharmaceutical biases, and a complex nomenclature.
that's how the industry ticks, all fine and well you say?
No it's not. While it's true that things have been added and removed from the DSM (like homosexuality or PTSD) based on the changing nature of society, it's patently absurd to allege that an entire field of medicine is, in actuality, a giant money making conspiracy.
let's look at the results after that generation i spoke of>
Ritalin Proven More Potent Than Cocaine - Nearly 10 Million Kids Drugged
Jeff Rense? Are you fucking kidding me? Is the illuminati behind the whole thing?
Whose next? Tom Cruise?
Thirty years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that Ritalin was pharmacologically similar to cocaine
It's pharmacologically similar to methamphetamine. Methamphetamine and cocaine act in similar (but not the same) way in the brain. So of course it can be abused. So what? Morphine, vicoden, oxycotin, lortab etc are pharmacologically similar to heroin. Noting the pharmacological similarities to a street drug doesn't make a legal drug bad anymore than a legal drug sold on the street is "good".
in the pattern of abuse it fostered and cited it as a Schedule II drug - the most addictive in medical use. The Department of Justice also cited Ritalin as a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Substances Act, and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) warned that "Ritalin substitutes for cocaine and d-amphetamine in a number of behavioral paradigms
Yeah. Call me when "Ritalin Houses" replace "Crack Houses".
Not that it's relevant. The ability to abuse a substance doesn't negate it's medical usefulness. We still use cocaine as an anesthetic.
Volkow's findings, published in the Journal of Neuroscience and reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, may act as a wake-up call to parents, educators and lawmakers who have yet to address the question of whether ADHD is a real physical, medical or neurological disease that can be scientifically confirmed or is even confirmable. Because the ADHD diagnosis is the No. 1 reason for drugging school-age children, and Volkow's research reconfirms that Ritalin isn't just kid stuff, parents may want to re-evaluate their child's treatment. The numbers alone are a telling sign of where the push to medicate is going.
According to the DEA, the number of prescriptions written for Ritalin since 1991 has increased by a factor of five (2.2 million) and about 80 percent of the 11 million prescriptions written for Ritalin are to "treat" ADHD. This means that nearly 9 million children have been prescribed the cocainelike "medication."
Another often tossed about talking point about psych illnesses. There aren't even quantitative tests to diagnose the most basic and overt of psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia. That doesn't mean it is non-existent. This sounds like the typical $cientology bullshit mumbo jumbo.
The proof is in the lives that have been changed by managing the condition.
Furthermore, according to a study published last February in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "Trends in the Prescribing of Psychotropic Medications to Preschoolers," psychotropic medications have tripled in preschoolers ages 2 to 4 during a five-year period . More disturbing, say critics, given Volkow's recent revelations, is thatduring the last 15 years the use of Ritalin increased by 311 percent for those ages 15 to 19 and 170 percent for those ages 5 to 14.
The most recent figures available reveal that in 1998 there were approximately 46 million children in kindergarten through grade 12. Twenty percent - one of every five children in school - have been doped with the mind-altering drug.
"Kindergarten through grade 12" is a pretty wide spread, don't you think? Though, I suppose it makes the issue more "tear-jerky" to toss in the notion of mass quantities of kindergartners being given Ritalin, even if it's not exactly factual.
This can be good news only for investors in the Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Novartis, which makes Ritalin. For instance, if the number of children taking the drug increased fivefold, so did the drug company's resultant profits and (presumably) stock value. In a June 28, 1999, article, "Doping Kids," Insight estimated that Novartis generated an increase in its stock-market value of $1,236 per child prescribed Ritalin. Based on these evaluations, the drug company would have enjoyed an increased stock-market value of approximately $10 billion or more since 1991.
Ah, the ever popular "big pharma conspiracy" canard. BTW, after ten years companies lose their exclusivity patent and drugs go generic. That is the case with methylphenidate.
In fact, the number of children being prescribed the cocainelike drug is rising at such a rate that, while good for investors, if ADHD were based on science and were a communicable disease,
Oh, so now the standard is that a disease had to be "communicable". Shall I list the diseases that are not communicable? I suppose we should strike oncology next.
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would consider it a major medical epidemic among America's youth. In the meantime, prescriptions continue to increase even as researchers continue to focus on the effect of psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin rather than on how scientifically to verify or validate the diagnosis. And critics of this mass drugging have become convinced that is no accident.
Well, in conclusion, the opinion piece was somewhat entertaining, but about as factual as any other opinion piece.