Big Pharma Claims Phony ADHD Epidemic To Scam Taxpayers

Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio and Brigida Santos talk about how the ADHD industry is targeting adults as they try to increase their billion dollar industry. Mike then talks with Danielle DiMartino Booth about how a new federal lawsuit says Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks rigged the U.S Treasury Bond Market to gain profits for themselves. Then Farron Cousins, Executive Editor for The Trial Lawyer Magazine, talks with Mike about how the dominating topic of “Tax reform” is keeping us distracted from another story with potentially more catastrophic consequences: Judicial appointments.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control, ADHD affects more than 10% of the U.S. population between the ages of four and 17, or at least that's about how many adolescents in the united States are currently diagnosed with the condition. Over the last three decades, diagnosis of ADHD has been skyrocketing, with many experts telling us that the rate of diagnosis has put the condition into a category of being an epidemic.

With children as young as two years old being diagnosed as having ADHD, it's time that we take a look at what's really driving this phonied up epidemic. Starting in the 1990s, parents began to learn more about ADD and ADHD, and they immediately thought that their child fit the description for many reasons. Maybe their child wasn't paying attention in class, or maybe they had too much energy, or maybe their grades weren't all that great.

Suddenly, every grit that parents had about their children became grounds to medicate them beyond recognition. Now, it's not to say that there aren't legitimate cases of ADHD, those absolutely do exist. But to believe that a child as young as two years old suffers from this condition isn't only naïve, but extremely dangerous for that child's development.

Of course, Big Pharma has been right there every step of the way to convince the American public, that their children need their ADHD medication, because they make 12 billion dollars a year pushing that pill. Now, you would think that 12 billion dollars would be enough to satisfy Big Pharma's greed, but as it turns out, the level of greed at drug companies has no limit.

In addition to selling these medications to our children, they're now trying to sell more to adults. A study in 2014 showed that the rate of adults who also suffer from ADHD has climbed at a phenomenal rate, and the only way to curb this was with expensive medication. As it turns out, that study was actually written and run by Big Pharma, no surprise there. Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security pays huge dollars for ADHD, disability counter benefits.

Not only does Big Pharma want to hook you and your children on ADHD medication, they also want taxpayers to start handing over their money to cover the cost of this phonied up epidemic. Joining me to talk about this is RT correspondent, Brigida Santos. Brigida, let's start by talking about the 2014 study on adult ADHD. What did that study say, we know who was behind it, if the industry actually paid for it, and ran it. What did it come out and say?

This article was published in a medical journal, and it was titled the Under-diagnosis of ADHD in Adult Patients. Now, this basically was written by people with financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry, and if you read the fine print at the very bottom of the study in the acknowledgement section, it thanks Eli Lilly for funding this study. Eli Lilly, of course, is a major manufacturer of drugs, including ADHD medications.

The entire point of the study was to alert psychiatrists on how to identify this disorder in adults, which Eli Lilly says is under-diagnosed. They want these doctors to start pushing their drugs onto people, and to tell patients that they are suffering from ADHD, even if they might not be, Mike.