I was standing in the pharmacy yesterday when my son started asking me some questions about how it all worked–the white-cloaked man behind the counter with his endless shelves of assorted bottles all filled with pretty colored pills.

“Mom, what do psychiatric drugs look like?”

Mothers who live in the jungle talk to their children about the dangers of snakes.

A modern urban mom teaches her children about crossing on a green light, not talking to strangers and the importance of washing our hands to prevent the spread of bacteria.

I teach mine about the dangers of psychiatric drugs, because frankly, as a mother, I’d rather have a snake bite or a runny nose to deal with, than a child wrapping a noose around his neck to do himself in.

I know, I know, it sounds dramatic, and as much as I’d like to believe my children will always follow my advice, when they decide to walk their own path a few years down the road, I want them to know the facts. Because there is a multi billion dollar industry pushing death onto the market, and only the informed will survive.

Maybe you would like to know a few of these facts yourself. I mean, if it’s not too late!

Classified Like Cocaine: Ritalin is “Kiddie Cocaine”

“Ritalin” is just a common name for what the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) classifies as a Schedule II narcotic. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, it’s in the same family as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines which are abused by children for their stimulating effects.

It’s frightening to consider the fact that while the law forbids the unrestricted distribution of these drugs, apparently “unrestricted” is a relative term since more and more children are packing prescriptions in their pocket. That means more and more parents are dishing out their hard earned cash to pay for psychiatry’s kid-destroyer: Ritalin!

Short-term Effects:

nervousness

insomnia

erratic pulse changes

heart problems.

WARNINGS by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in June of 2005 announced that Ritalin and similar drugs may also cause:

visual hallucinations

suicidal thoughts

psychotic behavior

aggression or violent behavior

The more you take, of course, the worse the side effects get. The fact is that in some schools up to 20% of the children pass it around like candy to each other calling it “Kiddie Cocaine” should be of grave concern to a lot of people. They grind and snort it, liquefy or inject it, and use it along with ecstasy and other drugs. This kind of abuse stresses the heart and causes serious damage to the lungs and eyes.

These are “short term” effects, because these effects can be observed after a relatively short term of use. However, they’re violent enough that they can also cause the life of the child itself to become very “short term”.

Long-term Effects:

Even the manufacturer of this drug says is a drug of dependency.

Children on stimulant medications have twice the future rate of hard drug abuse.

One-third of all child anorexia (eating disorders) are linked to use of this drug, as are symptoms of “obsessive-compulsive” behavior — within the first year of use.

A Texas researcher has also found that after only three months of Ritalin use, one out of twelve children treated with it had genetic abnormalities associated with an increased risk of cancer.

The Pill Pushers: The REAL Snakes A Mom Should Worry About

You see, there are all kinds of people in the world, but the most dangerous ones are the ones who extend a helping hand while they hide a dagger in the other behind their back.

It used to be cool to smoke, and advertisements everywhere sported long-legged lovelies with a stick between their fingers. It took a lot of deaths by lung cancer, but now it’s obligatory to plaster death warnings on a pack of cigarettes.

Well, you might like to think we could just wait to live out the consequences of a civilization doped up on Ritalin, I’m afraid lung cancer is a rather quiet way to go down compared to some of what we’re facing with a civilization on Ritalin.

And cigarette companies pulled in a fraction of the profits that psychiatry rakes in now. The fact is psychologists and psychiatrists are infiltrating schools at light speed and actively, aggressively marketing their drugs toward children.

You got that part, right?

This is an ACTIVE marketing strategy. This is not a service project to humanity. There’s money to be made. And A LOT of it. We can’t wait to see a civilization degraded by the effects of Ritalin, before we decide to put full color warning signs on pill bottles, because the truth is, civilization won’t survive to tell the story.

Gun-toting, suicidal children can not lead us into a great tomorrow. The very hope of the future itself rests in the ability of our young people to dream big dreams with confidence and personal power.

“Attention Deficit Disorder” didn’t even exist a few years ago. These are clever marketing strategies designed to get you to trade in the life of your children for some pretty pink pills.

These pills don’t offer solutions. They’re a modern day chemical lobotomy destroying the hope of humanity itself–destroying children.

As a parent, you need to know that if your son fiddles with his pencil and has a hard time concentrating in class, he’s very likely to meet with the school’s in-house psychologist. And before she suggests you spend a bit more time with your son and talk about his day, before she recommends a dictionary to clear up his misunderstood words, or suggests your son spend a bit less time in front of violent computer games or the TV, she’s going to offer you a miracle pill.

A pretty pill in handsome packaging that will make all your problems disappear. And all it will cost you is a healthy chunk of your paycheck and the life of your son.

Think twice before you pass your child a loaded gun.