One in Five Children Treated with ADHD Stimulants Also Getting Antipsychotics

What happens is that because these stimulants are amphetamines, the kids who take them wind up getting strung out. They become restless and irritable just as someone who snorts cocaine every day would. The neuroleptics are then brought in as sedatives in a rationalized atrocity of denying that amphetamines work the same in children “with add” and those without. The assumption being that the kids aren’t “strung out”, but rather that they had an “underlying bipolar disorder” that is now emerging. It’s the reason why you hear claims from them that “ADD/ADHD” is often “misdiagnosed in children with bipolar disorder” or that the two go hand-in-hand. It has pretty much been established in child psychiatry that a third of children diagnosed with “ADD/ADHD” will turn out to have “bipolar disorder” with bought-and-paid-for charlatans like Joseph Beiderman declaring that hyperactivity and irritability in children are the equivalent to mania in adults.

Precisely. I have seen this many, many times in my work with foster children, where stimulants cause increased aggression and this is “treated” by antipsychotics instead of reducing or eliminating the symptoms. You’d think that basic scientific reasoning would speak against this practice, which is about as logical as roping a rock climber and pulling him/her both up and down at the same time. But apparently scientific logic does not apply, and we are operating either from blind religious adherence without any scientific understanding at all, or from blatant profit-making evil motivations. Either way, anyone prescribing this combo should be called on the carpet, but it is common enough that they can get away with it by calling it “regular and accepted practice,” even when it is totally irrational. Pisses me off big time!

—- Steve

Nah, Vyvance may be worse but this has been going on for years, ever since “juvenile bipolar” was invented, oh, oops, I mean DISCOVERED by the estimable Dr. Biedermann, who interestingly worked a lot with “ADHD” kids before he made his “discovery.” It happens with any amphetamine-type stimulant, though Vyvance may make it even more likely. It sounds nasty to me!

—- Steve

You’re exactly right. Well said.

In the U.S. almost all children who would be taken to a psychiatrist are “referred” there by the school. Something like Teacher > School psychologist/counselor > principal. Coercion is not only common, but routine. Parents are told that if they don’t comply that they will charge them with child abuse via medical neglect and child protective services will take their children away. It’s what happened to me as a child and I’ve heard countless other stories about it. Considering that most of society is at least skeptical and concerned about psych drugs and children, it was surely the only way for child psychiatry to get on board the psychopharm gravy train.