Making Money out of Children

"We already know that our children suffer the lowest levels of well-being in Europe. This data shows that increasingly health professionals are prescribing drugs to treat child mental health problems, when evidence suggests that talking therapies can have an equal, if not better effect."  Anne Milton, MP Conservative Party health spokeswoman

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) was conceived by the American Psychiatric Association and included in what is referred to in the US as the 'Billing Bible', the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). 'ADHD' was included following a vote by a show of hands in 1987. Treatment of this condition with psychiatric drugs has grown to a worldwide multi-billion pound industry.

"Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that NHS spending on the three drugs [used for ADHD] in England alone rose from £18.97million in 2005 to £31.14 million in 2009…Nearly 760,000 prescriptions are now being doled out every year for Ritalin and similar drugs - most of them to children." - NHS spending on 'chemical cosh' child-calming drugs soars by 60% to £31m – Daily Mail 11 May 2010

Harmful psychiatric drugs are prescribed to disruptive, argumentative and boisterous children, adolescents and now adults who have been labelled with the highly controversial ADHD. By 2010, those figures rose to over 870,000 prescription items. 

This is nothing more than chemically controlling behaviour - which is big business but bad medicine. Many academics worldwide and even our politicians are speaking out.