Amen!
respect,
DQ
From: "Smith, Glenn" <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'David Quarter ' <[log in to unmask]>,
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Subject: RE: [AutAdvo] Ritalin Nation: Are We Killing Our Children?
Date sent: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 11:46:44 +0100
> ADS is probably the result of modern living - fast, multi choiced, need it
> now culture. Kids are simply responding to that. Ritalin and other such
> responsive drugs - many anti-depressants for example - etc are simply a
> response to the modern environment - souless, isolated, impersonal, endless
> roads, supermarket diets etc...It seems to me that this subject, like many,
> is simply a symptom of our times and reliance on science as a form of
> problem solving when it is the everyday politics of our lives and how we
> live them which have the answers. Humans have an amazing capacity to create
> enormous problems for themselves from nowhere and then turn to science for
> the answer to those problems, thereby creating more problems...usually for
> some experts to make a living out of...who are usually called doctors...and
> the drug companies...the disability movement is a political one and this is
> a political issue - not a medical one. However, the problem is - and always
> has been with personal politics - is that people live in the world as it is
> and not as it should or could be - trying to balance out these two strands
> is not easy...but an acceptance that the use of such drugs is potentially
> dangerous and unnacceptable if we call ourselves civilised and modern is a
> step forward to acknowledging that our environment is sick - not the kids...
>
> Glenn
>
> Dr Glenn Smith,
> Researcg Fellow,
> London.
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