Adderall and Ritalin are now a $10 billion a year industry

[singular_me]

gosh another eye opener...

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When Meth Was Medicine: Big Pharma Amphetamine Ads from the Days of Better Living Through Chemistry
Pharmaceutical advertising is nothing new, and these examples from the days of yore shed an interesting light on our current attitudes toward speed.

October 16, 2016

As shown in Nick Parsons' Meth Mania: A History of Methamphetamine (2014) and Nick Rasmussen's On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine (2009), amphetamines didn't begin as illegal drugs, but were championed as medicines that could cure what ailed Americans in mid-20th Century America. First marketed as nasal decongestants, pharmaceutical houses were quick to find other uses for the new wonder drugs, extolling their virtues for the treatment of obesity, anxiety, depression, among others.

Amphetamines as a class suppress appetite, increase alertness and stamina, and induce exhilaration, and, paradoxically enough, they calm down people suffering from attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders. That's what meth does, and that's what Adderall does.

Methamphetamine was produced under the proprietary name Methedrine by Burroughs Wellcome and was one of the early amphetamine formulations. Marketed as a dietary aid, it and other amphetamines were advertised in journals aimed at prescribing doctors, some of which we reproduce below.

Today's drug scourge was yesterday's Big Pharma hard sell. And, as you will see at the bottom, today's favored amphetamine now gets the same treatment, while meth is the stuff of the crime pages.............. MORE


http://www.alternet.org/files/amphet_ad_methedrine_obesity_burroughs_welcome.jpg



http://www.alternet.org/files/amphetamine_ad_skf_dexamyl.jpg


And now, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Adderall (dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine)

Different amphetamines go in and out of favor. While meth is demonized, Adderall is the latest amphetamine Godsend. It's now widely prescribed to kids diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Over 3.5 million children are currently on prescription stimulants, also including Ritalin (methylphenidate, closer related to amphetamines), a five-fold increase from 1990. Prescription stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin are now a $10 billion a year industry.

http://www.alternet.org/files/adderall.jpg



http://www.alternet.org/drugs/when-meth-medicine-big-pharma-amphetamine-ads


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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—ADHD—is big business these days. It has become the most-diagnosed long-term disorder after asthma, reports the New York Times. Over 3.5 million American children currently take an ADHD drug, a nearly 500% increase since 1990.
And these drugs, like Adderall, Ritalin, and Concerta, aren’t cheap. Sales of prescription stimulants reached almost $9 billion last year in the US alone, according to data from healthcare technology and information company IMS Health. They have more than quintupled since 2002.


https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/us-prescription-stimulant-sales-sales_chartbuilder.png?w=640

http://qz.com/158457/the-alarming-rise-of-adderall-in-two-charts/

[midnight rambler]

Aw shutup and hand me my Adderall!

[midnight rambler]

Giving speed to youngsters with developing brains and bodies, that's a GREAT idea!!!

But we DAMN sure need to make sure they stay away from pot, magic mushrooms, DMT, peyote, LSD, etc. when they become adults.

[midnight rambler]

Aw shutup and hand me my Adderall!

A couple of years ago I visited with a young 20 something woman who had been on Adderall since she was like 5-6(!). She expressed to me that she WOULD always be taking Adderall and that she would NEVER live without it, EVER, NO MATTER WHAT. PERIOD!!!

Needless to say she was pretty fucked up in the head.

[madfranks]

If you want to read some eye opening personal testaments of Adderall users, browse through this link and read up:

https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Amphetamines.shtml

[singular_me]

new doc, download it now just in case... 3:15Hrs long, am 5 mins into it..seems very well done

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Published on Dec 28, 2016

This is Era of Wisdom’s first full length documentary, “Toddlers on Amphetamine: History of Big Pharma and the Major Players.” It documents the full history of allopathic medicine, the hidden history of what we call


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rZn1xccrig


Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD
French children don't need medications to control their behavior.
Posted Mar 08, 2012

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/suffer-the-children/201203/why-french-kids-dont-have-adhd

[madfranks]

There is no excuse for putting toddlers on mind-altering drugs. At that age I can only imagine what sorts of permanent alterations such "therapy" does to the young developing mind. And I bet not a single parent would consider testing one on themselves to experience the mind-altering effects themselves before gleefully doping their children up.

Note: I've never taken amphetamines, but from reading the testaments of folks who did (see my post above), I have learned that these are not pills to be popping so casually.

[midnight rambler]

As noted in my previous post this shit creates a lifelong dependency on Big Pharma.


There is no excuse for putting toddlers on mind-altering drugs. At that age I can only imagine what sorts of permanent alterations such "therapy" does to the young developing mind. And I bet not a single parent would consider testing one on themselves to experience the mind-altering effects themselves before gleefully doping their children up.

Note: I've never taken amphetamines, but from reading the testaments of folks who did (see my post above), I have learned that these are not pills to be popping so casually.

[boogietillyapuke]

They aren't called "speed freaks" for no reason.

[singular_me]

what else to expect from a criminal industry ???

At least 10%? How about more like 15-20% instead?


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The Crime of Overbilling Healthcare
Posted August 29, 2014

............. How extensive is this commercial crime wave? The nation’s expert on computerized billing fraud, Malcolm Sparrow, who is an applied mathematician at Harvard, estimates medical billing fraud adds up to a minimum sum of $270 billion a year or at least ten percent of all health care expenses. His classic book, License to Steal, showed that these ripoffs are not just clerical errors or computer malfunctions. The systemic fraud goes far beyond the organized criminal syndicates defrauding Medicare that the FBI raids once in a while. The frauds are designed with corporate interests in mind to filch your wallet directly or under the nose of unobservant insurers, from the very design of billing statements to the manipulation of codes. ........... Start with the fact that about eighty percent of all medical bills contain errors, with the average error being $1,300. Most of these overbillings favor, unsurprisingly, the sellers (euphemistically called “the providers”). Ms. Palmer says the situation has been getting worse. With the number of diagnostic codes growing from 17,000 to about 60,000 under Obamacare, to supposedly improve efficiency, the system has become even more complicated, with hospitals and few others knowing how to game or beat the system.

She lists many of the ways that medical bills are hugely inflated, using the technique known as unbundling, when tests and procedures are broken down into their individual components, which allows for double or triple billing. Some hospitals also, by their own admission, incorporate their overhead in the itemized pricing of even simple items like $20 aspirins or $15 disposable razors.

An example of double-billing technique is when a patient is charged thousands of dollars a day for being in an intensive care unit (ICU) and then also charged for the ventilator which is already factored into the cost of the ICU. Hospitals charge for their mistakes as in the radiology department. Another example is when they charge, say $12, for each time a nurse brings you an aspirin, even though you’re paying for these hospital services in your room rate. Transporting that aspirin is called an “oral administration fee.” Gobbleygook names are omnipresent in these bills..............

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/25623-the-crime-of-overbilling-healthcare

[singular_me]

just ran into this excellent site...

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Following absurd and fake disorder labels like ADHD and ADD, the ignorant “mental specialists” recently invented another pseudo diagnose called ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder). In other words anyone who still has the natural, and thus normal, inherent reflex of opposing any form of evil.

Let it be crystal clear; the real patients here with a disorder are not the children but the ones making the fake diagnoses and are doing the toxic prescription jobs. These agents of death are nothing less than order followers because they as well have a neo-cortex that is in an imbalanced, or total shut down mode. Otherwise they would apply their knowledge and conscience and refuse to commit these immoral actions.

What we are witnessing here is a relentless mind control assault on a precious and highly gifted generation that is being neutralized in the global war on humanity and consciousness.’...

http://www.dutchanarchy.com/2017/02/20/parents-loyal-agents-torture-control-matrix/

[StreetsOfGold]

"Doctors" peddling this crap to children should be SHOT!
Not to mention that this is another 10 billion which could be spent on something GOOD and something worth producing.

[crimethink]

Just say no to (some) drugs:

https://www.drugs.com/pro/images/15e150c7-1347-40fb-9f58-c390521bc6f9/methamphetamine-02.jpg