The Drugging Of Our Children (2005) [Video]
Author: Charlie Bartlett // Category: Viral Videos
This isn’t the most well-put-together documentary. However, it’s probably affected me more than any other documentary simply because I can relate to soo much in it. As a child I, along with my best friend, was diagnosed with ADD. Unlike my friend, however, my parents refused to put me on drugs. Since the teachers were giving my parents so much shit for it, they ended up pulling me out of public school and sending me to a private one. As I’ve come to learn from this documentary, I wasn’t the only one that had these types of problems.
Another interesting point this documentary brings up is that diet (what you eat) has a HUGE affect on the way you act. Since I was always having stomach problems and no one told me I was allergic to certain foods for YEARS, it explains why I was such a depressing and angry kid in high school. IF YOU HAVE “ADD” OR TAKE DRUGS FOR DEPRESSION, YOU FUCKING BETTER WATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY!
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Tags: add, addicted, columbine, depression, Drugs, high school, shootings, suicide
June 1st, 2010 at 1:36 am
Wow, intense.
I remeber actually in the 9th grade some kid in m class who had ADD er ADHD im really not sure which one he had but he took Riddilin for it (cant spell sorry).
The kid gave another guy in our class a couple of these pills and im telling you the guy went nuts. He like threw a bloody desk and was sittin there like ranting and mumbleing shit like (im gonna kill everyone im gonna fucking kill you….)
WTF…
I was and still very am confused about why that happened lol. The boy who took the pills…i mean he was always a wierd kid but as far as we knew he had no medical problems so when he took this riddilin we have no clue why he went crazy. meanwhile the kid who actually took this drug everyday for his ADD and he never did any shit like that. I dont know mabye the kid was bullshitting all of us by faking and acting like an insane person but either way im prety sure all those drugs are just fucked.
June 7th, 2010 at 4:10 am
I might as well say a few things (my contrary nature, right?):
1.) Just be sure to realize that every documentary is biased, and whether you agree with the bias is what makes you think it’s good or not. Almost every documentary is propaganda no matter how unbiased one might try making it.
2.) I refuse to believe that after taking an antidepressant for a year would someone suddenly shoot up their school. A person’s behavior is supposed to be monitored during the use of that drug, and I think that maybe after a few weeks of use would something like that occur if not monitored. That it took a whole year is bullshit to me… I don’t think it was the drug at that point.
3.) There’s a slight contradiction within the documentary: some acknowledge ADD or ADHD to be real but over-diagnosed and over-treated, but it’s real and it was passed on to them from heredity or based on something the child’s mother did during pregnancy. However, there are other moments where he tries pointing out that this is just “some new disease.” This seems to happen a few times.
4.) It seems a tad too repetitive. They seem to be hammering the same basic points into your head for so long: over-diagnosed, children are energetic at a young age, that there was no such thing years back (contradicted by someone saying that there was), etc, etc.
I will say that, from what it sounds like, the government’s loyalty to certain lobbies and corporations spiked along with the number of ADD diagnoses. It’s disturbing to see that they should do that at the expense of the people.
I know someone who was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid and took Ritalin, and was home-schooled for a while. That was him before I knew him. He’s 25 or 26 now, and from what I know of him, he’s basically just an old kid. He has the mentality of a kid, he has the somewhat lovable qualities of a kid, and he just goofs around. The problem with him is that you can tell that he wouldn’t fare well in an environment where mindless obedience is the only way tolerated, but he’s one of the hardest workers I know and in Penn State for mechanical engineering. Surely even if he has ADHD, is it really a problem?
I’m going to have to watch more later when I’m ready to commit to watching a documentary.
I will say as a side note that I fully agree that we are being drugged up way too much. The most medication I’ve ever taken growing up was the occasional amoxicillin for ear infections, and even now I still have that problem but no longer take medications since I seem not to even notice I have them anymore. I don’t take any kind of meds for headaches nor any common colds since my immune system seems to work so well by itself.
I also don’t know if I fully blame the drugs. Yes, if you take drugs you don’t need, you will most definitely have negative side effects. I don’t think Ritalin’s the problem as much as the problem is that people take the Ritalin without properly having ADD. It’s the same way with Vicodin: one kid I know took three of those, and he was stoned and trying to start fights. He didn’t need them: they were a thrill for him. I think that taking anti-depression medications could work, but there’s that period where people need to be monitored to make sure they don’t do anything stupid while the drugs do what they were created to do. They have helped people, and I don’t deny they’ve hurt people. I just think that blindly blaming the drugs for something like Columbine is ridiculous, especially when, like it said, they were on the drugs for a year.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
“blaming the drugs for something like Columbine is ridiculous, especially when, like it said, they were on the drugs for a year.”
actually it’s pretty obvious to why drugs coincide with violent acts like that. Especially when you consider that the dosages of the drugs increase over time. First you take the drug, then you get used to the dosages, then you have to take more, and eventually the long-term increase leads to addiction- and the side effects of that can be extreme aggression. it’s just the way drugs work.
June 9th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
I understand what you mean, and I’m still of two minds on the subject. If you’re on an anti-depressant, are you reliant on it forever? Do they really have to up the dose like that?
Half the reason I’ve never gone to a psychiatrist is because I’m afraid that they’ll give me drugs and I’ll end up doing something I regret. It’s really the same reason I’ve stayed away from drinking, LSD… anything, really. I also display the symptoms they say comes from the anti-depressant drugs, which is what leads me to believe that it’s not the drugs, rather it’s more likely that they could have such strong problems.
Then again, like I said, I’ve never been on any.