Tom Cruise Is Right About Child Psychiatric Drugs
I recently read an article in the LA Times about Tom Cruise and his fight against psychiatry. The article points out the truth behind his message against psychiatry’s drugging of children and the fact that two other major celebrities are self acknowledged victims of psychiatry’s betrayal of children. The article says: “WHEN TOM CRUISE and his fellow Scientologists took a hammering earlier this year for their public opposition to psychiatric drugs, neither they nor their critics could have anticipated the releases in July and August of two weighty reports offering evidence that at least some psychiatric prescription-writing has run amok.”
The article goes on to say:
“If these two reports by Columbia University’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, or CASA, have it right, more kids than ever have their fingers — and sometimes their noses — in somebody else’s psychiatric prescription pill bottle.”
In this article the author of the reports on child prescription drug abuse is quoted as saying “Particularly alarming is the 212% increase from 1992 to 2003 in the number of 12- to 17-year-olds abusing controlled prescription drugs, and the number of teens trying these drugs for the first time.”
“The explosion in the prescription of addictive opioids, depressants and stimulants has, for many children, made the medicine cabinet a greater temptation and threat than the illegal street drug dealer, as some parents have become unwitting and passive pushers.”
The damage done to children is twofold: One - these drugs themselves have strong and damaging side effects and Two - The abuse of these drugs is also just as damaging as abusing any street drug.
Two music supstars are prime examples of the child drugging phenomenon:
Kurt Cobain was prescribed Ritalin at the age of 7. He believed that the drug led to his later abuse of illegal street drugs. He then committed suicide with a shotgun in 1994. Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, is quoted as describing it this way: “Kurt’s own opinion, as he later told her, was that the drug was significant. Courtney, who also was prescribed Ritalin as a child, said: ‘When you’re a kid and you get this drug that makes you feel that [euphoric] feeling, where else are you going to turn when you’re an adult?’ ”
Rap phenomenon Eminem, is another prominent victim of the label-and-medicate technique used by psychiatry. Rolling Stone reported that he was misdiagnosed with attention deficit disorder by his mother. He was then drugged with Ritalin.
As the LA Times says: “It seems almost too perverse to be true: Cobain’s and Eminem’s fans might get a stronger anti-stimulant message from their icons’ examples than from their own parents, teachers and doctors.”
For more information on Tom Cruise and his fight with psychiatry or psychiatric drugs for children, visit - psychiatry.info
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