Mar 10 2009
Amphetamines-The New Trepanation?
My nephew is a wild child. He has more energy than anyone I’ve ever seen. My sister and her husband can’t figure out a way to deal with him and let him work off his excess energy so they drug him. Did I mention he’s only 7? When I was a kid, if you had a lot of energy you just rode your bike around the neighborhood a few times, played on the swing-set and wore yourself out. Nowadays if children have lots of energy they say that they have ADHD and drug them.
Hello?!?!?!?!
ADD and ADHD are like irregularity. No one was irregular or even knew what that meant till they came out with yogurt that would cure it. All irregularity means is you don’t shit on schedule. Eat better and I can guarantee you will.
I’m not saying that there aren’t legitimate cases of ADD and ADHD out there but I do believe its getting a little out of control. Its becoming a form of behavior modification, such like trepanning.
In case you don’t know, trepanning is when you drill a hole in your skull to increase the volume of blood in your brain. Its been described as giving yourself the same soft spot that babies have. Its used to retain or improve your mental functions. i’ve also read articles by people who have trepanned themselves and they say its like being high all the time.
Yes, people actually do trepan themselves, as in, they drill a hole into their own heads with an electric drill at home. I do not recommend this. In fact, I don’t think anyone DOES recommend it. If you have no idea what your doing and not that handy with a drill, i can guarantee you will drill a hole into your brain and bleed to death. So once again, let me reiterate: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!
Trepanning has been around pretty much forever. They’ve even found cave drawings of people with holes in their skulls. It is said that it will cure epilepsy, migraines and mental disorders. They also used to think it let the demons in your head escape, but we don’t believe in head demons anymore now do we? Once in a great while they trepan people now, but only after they’ve had a severe head injury and they need to ease the pressure on the brain. Its also used for epidural and subdermal hematomas, in which case they replace the bone that was trepanned as soon as possible.
There is an awesome documentary called “A Hole in the Head” where you can learn about trepanation and even hear people who have had it done talk about it. Nowadays you can pretty much get the same effect by getting some good old fashioned shock treatment. They have bilateral or unilateral, meaning right in the center of your forehead, which is where you would drill the hole anyway.
Trepanation was also used to control mania patients a long time ago. If you ended up in an asylum and were uncontrollable, they would just drill a hole in your head to release the demons and make you calmer.
I do realize that the above statement sounds completely insane, however its true. Behavior modification is as old as time itself, and with the new drugs on the market today its still being done.
Like I said before, there are people out there who really have attention problems and for those people, drugs like Ritalin or other amphetamines work great! Adderol and Ritalin are stimulants. Do you know what else is a stimulant? Cocaine is. Why is it okay for amphetamines to be prescribed when cocaine isn’t? It’s not that long ago when cocaine was being used as a medication. Freud even used it on himself. It has the same effect, it gives you energy and helps you concentrate.
Would you give a small child cocaine? No you wouldn’t, so why give them amphetamines? I completely understand that some kids are wild and out of control but why drug them instead of enrolling them in karate or something where they could work off the excess energy? It is my opinion that starting children on drugs at such a young age will only lead to a tolerance, where they have to take more and more but also could cause them to become drug addicts earlier on in life. My nephew is not at the point yet where he’ll learn he can make money by selling his medication but some day he will be. I was addicted to coke and amphetamines for a long time and I know what it can do to you.
Also here’s some food for thought for the men out there: Amphetamines shrink your penis.
