ADHD and Marijuana
Recently on our travels across the country we found a good friend recently prescribed ADHD medication. For various symptoms such as inability to concentrate, memory issues, etc.
Not the first time I’ve come across this phenomenon. The medical ‘profession’ and the pharmaceutical industry are, in this day and age, completely focused on symptoms. Rarely, anymore, does one find a doctor with the inclination or the time to look to find causes.
Easier, quicker and more financially rewarding to hand out drugs that hopefully, mask the symptoms. That way one has a lifetime patient (income).
A quick search will find some common manifestations of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
- having a short attention span and being easily distracted
- making careless mistakes – for example, in schoolwork
- appearing forgetful or losing things
- being unable to stick to tasks that are tedious or time-consuming
- appearing to be unable to listen to or carry out instructions
- constantly changing activity or task
- having difficulty organizing tasks
And some short and long term effects of marijuana:
- affects judgement
- reduces reaction time
- sleepiness
- attention problems
- alters sense of time and place
- impaired body movement
- impaired memory
- impairs memory and thinking
- impairs learning functions
- weakens the ability to learn
The similarities are quite obvious. Any medical practitioner worth his or her salt should be able to see and know this if they bothered to look.
Add to this problem are the side effects of Adderall and Ritalin, which are the most prescribed drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder:
- restlessness
- difficulty falling asleep/interrupted sleep
- paranoia
- exacerbation of existing mental illnesses
- nervousness
- agitation
- anxiety
- psychosis
There are numerous solutions to ADHD that don’t involve drugs. Whether the so called disease is caused by marijuana or some other situation. Allergies. Mineral depletion.
If these side effects are caused by marijuana, partially or otherwise, ask your doctor or do your own research for ways to handle the cause. It’s not because your body is short on the vitamin Ritalin. And the whole brain chemical imbalance thing has been debunked numerous times. So, don’t go there.
I’m not a doctor but it may be as simple as stopping the use of marijuana and doing some sort of detox. Or it could be something more serious. In his book, A Dose of Sanity, Dr Sydney Walker gives an example of someone that been prescribed an anti-anxiety drug when with proper research he found the cause to be a brain tumour. But that takes a bit of time to discover. Time that most doctors won’t take.
More on Big Pharma and Addiction here
There are very few instances where drugs will solve problems.
Do your research. Ask your doctor to do the same.