“If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She appears to be urging Ritalin caution; but, if you listen carefully, she's calling it a miracle drug: "A Godsend for emotional and behavioral problems, for both children and their parents." She insists her efforts are not an attack on the medical treatment of children's emotional well-being because the drugs are very, very "useful."” IfsWellsChildrenUseProblemParentEffortHeardEmotionalCallingDrugMiracleClintonMedicalWell BeingTreatmentUsualCautionRemarksDrug UseDemagogueryMedical TreatmentEmotional Well BeingRitalin Author:Peter Breggin
“The man Hillary [Clinton] introduced at the meeting goes so far as to say that no amount of trauma to children - or poor parenting or anything in their lives - causes them mental disorders. He says it's all biological and genetic and should be treated by drugs.” MenShouldChildrenCausesPoorHe ManAmountDrugMeetingsClintonTraumaTreatedDisorderMental Disorder Author:Peter Breggin
“[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.” ChildrenHas BeensDifferentGovernmentForceTakenOur ChildrenMental HealthEducationalEducational SystemPsychiatricHealth System Author:Peter Breggin
“In part I'm just mystified. Here's a woman, Hillary [Clinton], who wrote a book about it takes a "village" to raise children. It wasn't about a book about "it takes a pill." There's a "double think" that the modern person often has. Anything that's called "science" is accepted as an absolute and sweeps reason away.” ThinkingChildrenPersonsBookReasonModernAbsolutesRaisesClintonAcceptedVillagePillsIt Takes A VillageIt Takes A Village To Raise A ChildVillage To Raise A Child Author:Peter Breggin
“In some cases it is identical because methamphetamine is one of the F.D.A. drugs allowed for children. The three basic stimulants now are amphetamine, methamphetamine, and then Ritalin, which are all in the same class and Schedule Two drugs along with cocaine, the most addictive drug as recognized by all the world's drug agencies.” WorldChildrenTwoThreeClassCasesDrugAgencySchedulesIdenticalCocaineStimulantsAmphetaminesMethamphetamineRitalin Author:Peter Breggin
“[ Alfred Kinsey] was sexually abusing those children and had sex abusers working for him to stimulate the babies.” ChildrenSexBabySexuallyAbusersKinsey Author:Peter Breggin
“I think the first thing parents need to start doing is absolutely refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of children in school. Schools should not be mental hospitals. Parents should say that the only tests they want their children to have are those respecting their academic subjects and nothing else.” ThinkingWantNeedsShouldFirstsChildrenSchoolParentSubjectsTestsRefusePsychologicalHospitalsAcademicEvaluation Author:Peter Breggin
“It's going to get even worse if Hillary [Clinton] follows her plan that I describe in Reclaiming Our Children. But even now in many, many schools the nurses are giving out more drugs than were given out in children's mental hospitals when I was in training. You can go into a school today and find that ten or twenty percent of the boys are on drugs given by the school nurse. I just recently visited a school where over half of the children were being given drugs.” IfsGivingChildrenTodaySchoolGivenHalfBoysPlansDrugTenTrainingPercentTwentiesOur ChildrenClintonHospitalsNurseSchool Nurse Author:Peter Breggin
“Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.” ChildrenSchoolParentRefusePsychologicalEvaluation Author:Peter Breggin
“There is nothing worse that you can do to a human being in America today than give them a mental illness kind of label and tell them they need drugs and these children are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 years-old being treated in this manner.” NeedsGivingYearsHumansKindChildrenTodayAmericaCan DoHuman BeingsDrugIllnessTreatedMental IllnessLabelsAmerica Today Author:Peter Breggin
