Zac Goldsmith on Ritalin

Bwahahahahah, splurt, giggle, snort. Good one Zc, you should go on the stage mate.

Mr Goldsmith said yesterday: "The Telegraph’s campaign to reclaim childhood for the next generation is one I wholly support.

"We’ve
arrived at a point where childhood, and all things that go with it, are
inconvenient, with the natural impulses of children increasingly
diagnosed as inappropriate once they enter a nursery or school
environment."

He added that he thought the NHS
should stop relying on the diagnosis of conditions such as ADHD, which
usually led to the prescription of drugs such as Ritalin.

"It’s
worrying that the medical establishment’s default response to
behavioural difficulties is to reach for pills. Something is obviously
triggering an increase in their use and the first role of the health
service should be to identify what that is.

"If a
real investigation took place we’d almost certainly discover problems
with the food children are eating. But we’d also have to confront the
fact that despite unprecedented material wealth, children aren’t
thriving."

Stunning, eh? An organic farmer tells us it is all because people are eating non-organic food. Couldn’t see that one coming, no siree.

How about sticking with the first part of the analysis? That the natural impulses are inconvenient. Most especially, that the natural impulses of boys (fractious, easily bored, short attention spans) are diagnosed as something wrong when they are , in fact, simply boys being boys.

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6 responses

  1. I think it was Thomas Sowell who wrote that girls will be girls and boys will be medicated.

  2. Maybe it is the food. We should splice some good chemical producing genes into food to deal with the issue. That would be far more productive.

  3. “the natural impulses of boys (fractious, easily bored, short attention spans) are diagnosed as something wrong when they are , in fact, simply boys being boys.”
    Let’s see if I have this right – you’re saying that diet has no effect on behaviour?

  4. Christ, how slow of me! I’ve just realised that doing away with selection and streaming in schools hits boys much harder than girls, because boys are so easily bored when the class goes either too quickly or too slowly. No wonder the poor sods keep falling behind. Bring back streaming and selection IN THE NAME OF SEX EQUALITY.

  5. We are killing the rainforest

  6. My name is Nikki Hughes and i would like to show you my personal experience with Ritalin.
    I am 51 years old. Have been on Ritalin for 9 years now. I began taking it for depression after my marriage ended, and also in a misguided attempt to lose weight! I lost about 15 pounds at the beginning, had tons of energy, felt great…but the weight loss stopped within a few months.. I currently feel focused and motivated after I take it and am able to get a lot done. As well as the generic ritalin, I take 6 – 12 Tylenol 1 tablets a day. I know how bad this is, but can’t seem to stop for more than a few days. The last nine years seem to be a blur…it’s like I have lost those years….I hardly remember anything about them. I find this sad and frightening. I take what my doctor prescribed: three 10mg. tablets a day. I have tried many times to completely get off this drug but I now realize that I am truly addicted to it. If I stop taking it for more than one day I become extremely depressed and have very negative, hopeless thoughts and ideas.
    I have experienced some of these side effects-
    very irritable when it wears off; sometimes difficult to fall asleep, memory loss, hear music in my head that won’t stop.
    I hope this information will be useful to others,
    Nikki Hughes

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