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Should Parents Be Told That Ritalin Can Kill New Amazon.com Bestselling
Book Tells All
Author of an important new book: 101 Reasons To
Avoid Ritalin Like the Plague, Howard Glasser writes about his concern about
the welfare of our children and of what he considers the hidden dangers of
stimulant medications. Glasser is also author or the bestselling book on
ADHD, Transforming the Difficult Child. In the book he also describes the
one reason why Ritalin type drugs are almost always unnecessary as well as
describing his 10-day doctor supervised personal experience on Ritalin
which, like "Supersize Me" was surprisingly physically and
psychologically toxic.
This book captures the bigger picture of all that is sacrificed with the
pivotal decision to put a child on Ritalin or medications. Glasser attests
that there are so many physical and psychological side-effects that never
get mentioned to the parent who is seeking help or being pressured by the
school to do something about their child&#s behavior or poor performance
at school.
This book fights for the parent to have full disclosure of the truth.
Parents are never told: "Oh by the way, once in a while a child
dies simply by taking their prescribed medication, or by the way, children
on stimulant medications have twice the future rate of drug abuse, or by the
way, 1/3 of all children on these medications develop symptoms of obsessive
compulsive behavior within the first year. Most doctors don&#t tell
parents these things because they simply don&#t know.
Glasser says that most doctors get the majority of their information about
these medications from the same pharmaceutical companies that have a
tremendous vested interest in selling more and more medications each year.
Most doctors can&#t tell parents the truth about the psychological side
effects because they have no idea that simply giving children these drugs
makes it near impossible for the child to deeply believe in themselves and
their own power and resourcefulness but rather the child comes to be reliant
on the hoped-for power of the medication. Worse, says Glasser, the message
to the child is "neither you, nor your teacher, nor your parents,
nor we the doctor can handle your intensity, it scares us and we need to
make it go away." Thus starts the diabolical inner war between a
child and their life intensity. The very life force that all great people
tap into now becomes overwhelming and frightening to this child who then
spends a lifetime on the run and unable to enjoy the fruits and beauty of
their intensity.
The subtitle of this book is: "Including one great reason why
Ritalin is almost always unnecessary." The truth is that the author
would still be recommending Ritalin himself if he had not discovered an
incredibly simple and reliable way to help convert a child&#s intensity
into their source of greatness. An entire section of this book is devoted to
describing this method in detail.
The icing on the cake is the "supersize me" collaboration
between the author and his physician where Ritalin is prescribed in
increasing dosages for 10 days and both the author and his doctor journal
the surprising results.
Contact Howard Glasser at 520-977-5387 or by email at: adhddoc @
theriver.com