by Andrew Palmer

Created on: November 16, 2008   Last Updated: January 02, 2009

To every problem there is usually an answer that is short, simple and wrong. This is a process that repeats itself in our society whether it is our food, our children's education or the way we utilize and produce energy. No exceptions have been made by the FDA towards medications and the control and regulation of their usage and distribution. It should come as no surprise that we've been using amphetamine based drugs to control children's behavior. It's easy! You should know right away that it has never been made official that ADD, ADHD and MBD even exist as substantially unique behavior modalities separate from that of your average young child growing up in a world such as this.

ADD, ADHD and MBD might be problems in which case amphetamine based drugs might be able to "re-focus" someone and then ween them off safely. In most cases someone who takes the drugs for more than 3 years begins to stop making progress and has now adjusted and is used to being on the drug. Their body and mind expect to feel stimulated everyday. They've built up a tolerance. Most patients are directed to and believe that they can take these pills safely for the rest of their lives when there is evidence that medications are known to increase the chance of heart attack, increased blood pressure, muscle and joint pain, irritability, loss of appetite, erectile dysfunction. Some psychological effects may include anxiety, nervousness, suicidal thoughts, extreme bouts of laughter and crying when there seems to be no reason. Amphetamines have been used since the 30's in the form of inhalers and later pills commonly used amongst everyone from soldiers in WWI to housewives and other regular folks of society. Drugs were mostly over the counter back in those days and easyily accesible. You could almost say this stuff is in America's blood.

The fact is the human body is an amazing and complex system which can adapt to many different ways of living. For example, an Eskimo who lives in an igloo would be very resistant to what most would consider cold weather. Someone who works outside all day in the middle of Brazil close to the equator would be used to the heat and would be very sensitive to cold weather. When dealing with what we know as ADD and the like we are dealing with the inability to understand and deal with ones emotions. Emotions or feelings are what moderate what we do and don't do. An emotion is what gives birth to desire, wanting a certain outcome, wanting certain events to take place

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