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Dr. Gabor Maté on ADHD, Bullying and the Destruction of American Childhood
A spike in diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other mental disorders has fueled an unprecedented reliance on pharmaceutical medications to treat children, with long-term effects that remain unknown. We speak with Canadian physician and best-selling author, Dr. Gabor Maté. He argues that these responses are treating surface symptoms as causes while ignoring deeper roots. Dr. Maté says children are in fact reacting to the broader collapse of the nurturing conditions needed for their healthy development. [includes rush transcript]

Dr. Gabor Maté Official Website

Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It,


Scattered Minds: Canadian Hardcover & Paperback Edition

"In the United States right now there are three million children receiving stimulant drugs for ADHD." (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
~ Dr. Gabor Maté



Marijuana and ADD/ADHD thread
Therapeutic uses of Medical Marijuana in the treatment of ADD/ADHD

Granny Storm Crow's MMJ List

Marijuana and ADD Therapeutic uses of Medical Marijuana in the treatment of ADD

Cannabis as a medical treatment for attention deficit disorder
"Why would anyone want to give their child an expensive pill... with unacceptable side effects, when he or she could just go into the backyard, pick a few leaves off a plant and make tea for him or her instead? Cannabinoids are a very viable alternative to treating adolescents with ADD and ADHD"

Cannabinoids effective in animal model of hyperactivity disorder

Cannabis 'Scrips to Calm Kids? foxnews
As a California pediatrician and 49-year-old mother of two teenage daughters, Claudia Jensen says pot might prove to be the preferred medical treatment for attention deficit disorder (search) — even in adolescents.

Case Study: Inhaled Cannabis Improves Symptoms Of ADHD
Oral administration of synthetic THC capsules (dronabinol) mitigates symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a case study published by the International Association for Cannabis as Medicine (IACM, Germany).

msicidron

this issue has always really disturbed me..

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DdC

Addiction, Attention Deficit Disorder 12/31/10

"There are encouraging signs. There’s certainly people like Jon Kabat-Zinn, who talks about stress and mindfulness, and Andrew Weil, who talks about the importance of nutrition and a more holistic approach. So there are many people doing great work."
~ Dr. Gabor Maté

Ganjawar in Everything

Signs of Sickness and D.E.A.th

Denver Doctor Could Lose License for Recommending Marijuana

Dr. Andrew Weil

"I often have the suspicion that everything that we do in the name of stopping the drug problem is the drug problem. It's not just the laws but the whole mentality that sees drugs as the problem and tries to fight them. By doing that I think we've made it all worse."
~ Dr. Andrew Weil
The Natural Mind

Suliman

Giving amphetamines to children is fucking retarded. That's your real gateway drug- adderal.

how many states even give medical MJ to kids? here you have to be 16....

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ADD and ADHD are a deficiency in parenting and little more.

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Debaser

I'll admit I'm no doctor or anything like that, but I've always said that ADD and ADHD is just the medical term for childhood.

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Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song?

Message CM47: Let's go pay some hookers to knock our junk around.

Rubix

My neighbor used to be a HYPERFUkbot when he was a kid, 4-13~, his mother (being a nurse and wise enough), let it pass, now he's about to graduate with a masters in landscape from the U of MN. can only imagine what would happen if he had been put on stimulants.

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