Ritalin and Child Deaths: how much more of this are we supposed to take?

by Kieron McFadden

Would YOU give a child a chemical that damages his brain, impedes his ability to function, ruins his life or even kills him or her? If you witnessed someone else doing it, you would have the perpetrator locked up wouldn't you? Well you might but there are some people who can't be bothered


Various human rights groups and Citizens' watchdogs have striven for many years to alert the public to the dangers of giving the drug Ritalin to children, particularly as Ritalin is often prescribed for the bogus and now very much discredited "ADHD" that was part of the psycho-pharmaceutical ploy to palm the drug off on the unsuspecting public.

The penchant of "responsible" authorities for ignoring the warnings and standing by and doing nothing resulted in much well-documented harm to a great number of children, including suicides, drug addiction and violence.

But now the truth emerging about Ritalin and other ADHD drugs touted by psychiatry is turning out to be more horrific than anyone imagined; research from The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has revealed that drugs like Ritalin are linked to sudden death in children. Studies indicate a whopping 500 percent increased risk of death for children administered such mental health drugs by psychiatrists, doctors and parents.

It has been known for many years by many experts, scientists, and health practitioners – and disgracefully ignored by authorities who seemed to care little about the fate of kids – that such psychiatric drugs are dangerous and, among other things, destroy the neural function in children's brains, resulting in the victims having a much more difficult time processing information and learning new things. Such drugs destroy their developing nervous systems and can permanently cripple their ability to function as normal human beings.

Ritalin is also responsible for causing a permanent tic in the face, neck, and head of many of the children and it in fact causes far more serious neurological damage than the problems it is falsely purported to treat.

Studies over the years have revealed that drugs like Ritalin visibly calm children, but then we tranquillize pets and livestock too with much the same calming results and if we as a society think it is perfectly all right to treat our kids like our pets then we really are a society on the way out. Personally I do not think that "we" regard it as okay but unfortunately some wealthy corporations, much of the psychiatric profession, some doctors and our governments obviously do and these have been having, in the face of our acquiescence, things pretty much their own way in the let's-drug-the-kids stakes.


Ritalin, despite the carnage, remains one of the main drugs prescribed for children with supposed behavioral problems. But those who produce and prescribe the drugs and sell unsuspecting parents on the idea of feeding them to their children KNOW what they will do to the child who takes them. They know! Yet they go on nevertheless dishing them out like sweets in the full knowledge that lives will be ruined permanently.

The sane, responsible, safe solution is to encourage correct diet; cutting out sugar, junk foods, aspartame, refined flour and so on; increased exercise; a medical handling for allergies and all the rest. Instead children are being given drugs, lazy, irresponsible and often murderous approach to the welfare of children. Many experts encourage better nutrition, adequate sleep, and increased exercise and physical activity as a proper treatment for children with behavioral and learning disabilities. Inadequate nutrient intake is on its own a massively significant factor in children's hyperactivity and other problems with behaviour. After all, proper brain function cannot be achieved if the brain is not being fed what it needs to be healthy.

What kind of people are we that we stand by and allow this neglect – nay, pharmacological abuse – of our children? What kind of people man our government who allow this to go on year in and year out so that the profits of a few corporations can continue to flow?

When is someone in our (hah!) government going to act to protect the people and their young from this destruction?