BULLSHIT, is what I call it

A new proposal, according to some stat im making up but is based off of some credible source I have read. 60% of USA population has the internet and/or regular access to an internet assecisble computer. Thats more people than who acctually pay income taxes! Like everything else the assecebility to the computer is creating a long term stetimic problem addiction or something like it. Americans love to be able to identify a feeling or a problem and treat it with drugs or rehab. Americans love a rehabilitated person, especcially a celebrity. As the relegious would call it, a story of witness.


What the hell is Restless Leg Syndrome? I somehow came across a perscription that can help fix this debilitating syndrome.


C'MON man! thats some bull shit but the medical definition makes me laugh just as much
An article writing In the Medical Journal BMJ by Dr. M. Yunus & Dr. J.C. Aldag defines RLS as

"Restless legs syndrome is characterised by an unpleasant, difficult-to-describe
sensation in the legs that produces an invariable urge to move them frequently.
This symptom typically occurs at rest or before sleep and is alleviated
by activity." BMJ

All I can focus on is the Alleviated by activity, so this is made for lazy people who didnt get off their fat ass all day. This is what Im talking about when Americans just make up disorders. Tell them to go walk outside or something if they cant sleep because of RLS. I digress because I could give a damn about people wanting sedatives and pain pills because what is new, everyone loves to Limbaugh. I digress because my point isnt about the overmedicating in America for stupid shit and to keep people zombied up, but about americas need to identify everything as a problem.

Eric Benet, Tiger Woods, David Duchovny, Michael Douglas, & Billy bob thorton have all been to sex rehab. I still dont get the purpose of this, for one Eric Benet was with Halle Berry. Can I blame a man for wanting sex to much from her? What other addiction allows one to partake in their addiction. In Alchol rehabilitation they tell the patients to stay away from alchol and stay sober, since it is easy to start drinking again. If you go to Drug rehab, they tell Brett Favre. Lay off the pain killers forever, you are addicted and will become again if you partake. SEX REHAB, what the fuck. The concept isnt even logical, its just weird. First let me find a definition or purpose of sex rehab or a sex addict. PsychCentral define sex addiction as:

"Sexual addiction is best described as a progressive intimacy disorder characterized by compulsive sexual thoughts and acts. Like all addictions, its negative impact on the addict and on family members increases as the disorder progresses. Over time, the addict usually has to intensify the addictive behavior to achieve the same results."

Honestly just sounds like puberty when you would sleep with any girl who gave you the time of day. Its not about love its fucking. So are all people who dont get married but like sex, sexual addicts? since they obviouslly lack intimacy? I will give it a second thought let me see what the purpose of rehab is.

"is a full service Sexual Addiction Treatment Center. Where there is a desire for help treatment is successful. With the help of the clinician a treatment plan is created not only to deal with sexual addiction but other issues. Sexual addiction is a very isolative and shameful behavior for the addict. At the Genesis House Sexual Addiction Treatment Center Program, the client will be involved in independent therapy, group therapy and family therapy to deal with all issues at hand. It is important to include significant others in the therapy as it is with other addictions." blah blah blah 12 step program

I am still not convinced this is a stupid fucking diagnoses. What happened to the days when a person who fucks to much is identified as a man Whore, whore, a cheater, or promiscuis. Now its a disorder that rich folks made up so they dont have to blame themselves. SMH, if your a whore your a whore not an addict. Just like someone addicted to crack without a lawyer is a crackhead not a person batteling their drug addiction.

This is the only addiction programing where you dont have to give up your addiction completley just cut back. I thought that was monogamy, but I could be wrong. I doubt all those people who go to rehab are single or with a wife who doesnt want kids. What then, well honey I cant sleep with you because then i might get excited and fuck the whole block. BULLSHIT, this is not an addiction. Just some made up hollywood diesese so their golden people dont have to be refered to as whores. Just remember before you get tiger woods, think should I marry her and risk loosing half and my kids. Or take the lil wayne route, just have 5 kids by different wives and never worry about loosing half.


I'd rather sail alone than have my damn ship sunken.
Being single's par for the course,
I don't wanna cause a marriage cause I don't wanna cause a divorce.
Its probably important and its better for health.
Besides, I get the whole damn bed for myself.
But what the hell everybody yells for me to drop down my guard.
No! this heart of mine's for me, it's locked down and it's scarred.
Go home, I don't need me a wife, I'm happily single for life, alright?

Its CRACK

The USA prison system has the most people in it out of any county in the entire world. That might be changing with the Obama administration making their first attempt in reforming drug laws from the WAR on Drugs. Can't wait to hear what dumb ass comment Biden has about this. Biden is credited with coming up with allot of the WAR ON DRUGS legislation and coining the term of Drug Czar.?(HASeattle)(Don't Tase me bro) Why do they call the person in charge of stopping drugs a Drug CZAR and not department head or secretary of the war on drugs? Is it due to the fact that CZARS are not elected in politics and so cant be fired for not doing their jobs. Being the drug use in The US has increased steadily since the inception of the war on drugs, the Drug Czars have all failed? Biden's legislation is what put Tommy Chong in jail. I wonder if prison rehabilitated him?

WASHINGTON - Justice Department officials yesterday endorsed for the first time legislation that would eliminate vast sentencing disparities for possession of powdered versus crack cocaine, an inequality that civil rights groups say has disproportionately affected poor and minority defendants...The issue has received attention from both political parties, but never before have top law enforcement officials supported legislative reforms, say drug-control analysts. "Now is the time for us to reexamine federal cocaine sentencing policy, from the perspective of both fundamental fairness and safety," Breuer said.
The announcement is part of a White House effort to move away from failed strategies in the war on drugs and to shift more money into treatment, counseling, and job training.
Conflict over the cocaine laws, which date to 1986, has simmered for years. At the heart of the debate are vastly unequal penalties for carrying cocaine in powder form as opposed to rock form, or crack.
The inequality has come to be known as the "100 to 1" ratio, in which possession of 5 grams of crack, the weight of two small sugar cubes, triggers a mandatory five-year prison term, while someone carrying 500 grams of powder cocaine receives the same sentence. (Washington Post via Philadelphia Inquirer)

500 Grams compared to 5 grams that's outrages. The drug war is a complete joke when you lock up the addicts and not the suppliers. By suppliers I am not referring to the neighborhood dope man but his supplier. 500 grams is more than a damn pound of the white pony, white girl, Sosa, Blow, nose candy, snowball, tornado, wicky stick, Perico (Spanish). It is nice to see the administration attempting to fix a disparity that has remained to long, and yes I had an expectation that as a black man Obama needed to fix this problem which ends up tearing apart families. If its not bad enough that a parent or child is using crack, the best place to rehab them has to be the penitentiary? Or maybe the Feds are stopping outsourcing and realize the prisons are to damn full. California spends nearly $45,000 per inmate every year, and are looking to cut Americas Largest state prison population by approximately 8,889 inmates.(San Fransisco Chronicle)California judges thought these nearly 9,000 prisoners where dangerous enough to lock up in prison, but now they are not that dangerous we can just put them on parole. This whole system is fucked, the Drug keep everyone paid. The countries that produce drugs and ship them the US, the custom agents who have jobs primarily to stop drugs from getting in, technology companies that keep selling pipe dreams to the govt with equipment that isn't effective in stopping the drug imports, the distributors and drug dealers who often times are the ones who are blamed. The special agencies and divisions of enforcement that are intended to stop drugs and get paid to arrest drug addicts and dealers. The Judges who can show they are tough on drugs by giving retarded sentences so that they can get reelected. If drug crimes where not a priority do you think the amount of judges would be the same. The lawyers who prosecute and defend drug dealers and users. Often times if a dealer has cash that has been laundered they can afford a lawyer who specializes in drug defenses. At the end if they are being prosecuted by the federal government then they will most likely still get convicted yet their attorneys will make out like a bandit. The prison guards necessary to monitor prisoners in prisons which are mostly filled up with people who have drug related charges. And who gets hurt while everyone makes money off of it, the families of the jailed family members. Congrats California on the revision of the prison system, to bad you can't say you did it for common sense but because there IS NO TAX MONEY TO PAY FOR IT ANYMORE. Maybe the state also figured they can continuing locking up Hispanics and blacks in record pace and spend $40,000 on each new prisoner, Or they can use the money to stop the Cartels from bringing it across the border, to distribute and sell. Drug Mules are like Rabbits, its sad when they die but there are a million more willing to take the last mules place and risk to bring in the white to the country.

Wale - Warming Up Cane off of his 100 miles and running mixtape. Big Daddy Kane beat


According to the Los Angeles Times California also hates KIDS, but that should have been cleared when they voted for all the bonds a couple years ago to keep the power on.

"It's the underpinning of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 ruling in Roper vs.Simmons, which banned execution of inmates for crimes they committed as children.That doesn't stop California from locking up children as young as 14 for life without even the most remote possibility of parole. There are more than 200 such offenders living out their lives in prison here, with no chance -- despite any maturing, any repentance, any burgeoning awareness of the wrongness of their actions -- of asking for parole, even decades into adulthood. That's costly, cruel and foolish. Knowing they will live and die in prison, people who acted in the rashness of youth have no hope of returning to society, and therefore no reason to learn, or grow, or mature, or reform. But surely their example will dissuade other youth from crime? Nonsense. Kids who can't imagine next year can't imagine life in prison and can't be expected to make decisions based on something as obscure to them as parole. Of all the nations of the world, only the United States permits life without parole for children. Even here, a growing number of states have banned the practice. California should too, but in the meantime, Yee's bill is a sane start."(LATimes)

Even Charles Manson goes up for parole every 6 years, Charles Fucking Manson.

Who wants Shrimp?

A man in Massachusetts was charged and convicted of stealing $500 worth of shrimp, but the interesting part of the story besides wondering what could possibly be done with $500 dollars worth of shrimp. The question that the court wants answered is WHY?

"A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to being a serial shrimp shoplifter at a New Hampshire supermarket, but hasn't explained why he couldn't stay away from the frozen fish. John Silvera, 46, pleaded guilty to charges of shoplifting and simple assault in connection with his arrest last month. Police said he stole about $500 worth of shrimp in four separate trips to the Salem Market Basket.John Silvera, 46, pleaded guilty to charges of shoplifting and simple assault in connection with his arrest last month. Police said he stole about
$500 worth of shrimp in four separate trips to the Salem Market Basket.Silvera was expected to spend several months in jail before being sent to Oklahoma to face drug trafficking charges there."(MSNBC)

I am clearly opinionated but for me to call someone weird is to concede that their is such thing as normal which assumes that their is one form of conformity that is the true sense of what it means to human. I cant completely blame the man for all of the shrimp from the Salem Market. How does someone go to the store proceed to the fish section and ask for $125 dollars worth of shrimp and walk out without anyone wondering what happened to all that shrimp. The fact he went back 3 more times to ask and walk out with $125 and no one was on notice that the shrimp stock is going down at a quick pace and we are not collecting money is the fault of the store. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on security, fool me three times, shame on the cashier, you ain't going to fool me a forth time got you. I wouldn't say anything either, the time in a New Hampshire jail has to be more comfortable than jail in Oklahoma for drugs. Shrimp theft cant be a maximum prison type bid. Where did all this shrimp go?

We are getting only the shitty parts of socialism!

TAX CUTS=Performance Enhancers

When the allegations came out that BARRY BONDS(the best hitter ever)used Performance enhancing drugs, one would have thought that he crashed the economy and pushed gasoline prices up. Besides the fact that Baseball is a game, and not some mythical activity that trumps is to be a beacon of light in the world.
First, who never cheated in sports? Dont lie, that includes taking a time out while acting injured, distracting the ref to get away with fouls, over the back foul not called in basketball, an illegal block in football, fighting in the dog piles in football, Flopping in Basketball & Soccer, spitballs, corked bats, betting scandals, but performance enhancing drugs is a determent to the game. fact many sports accepts cheaters in there most cherished halls, THE HOF. I didn't realize that the Hall of fame fame was sacred, I though it was to enshrine and remember the best who played the game. The players that can not be forgotten while telling the narrative history of a sport.

- The lovable Chicago Cubs allegedly laid the precedents for the Black Soxs Scandal of 1919 (Boston Herald Link)

- Hall of Fame Picther Gaylord Perry admitted to scuffing the ball, and using spitballs to modify the projectory of his pitch, which is illegal under MLB rules.

Gaylord Perry -- the only pitcher in history to have won the Cy Young Award in both leagues -- fooled hitters and umpires for 22 years. An admitted proponent of the spitball, he entitled his autobiography Me and the Spitter. He contended that he rarely threw it, however, maintaining the idea that he might use a spitball was enough to put the hitter at a disadvantage. He heightened suspicion by his odd, herky-jerky delivery.(HSW.com)

- Whitey Ford (P)THE New York Yankees

They used to call the righty "Black & Decker" for his creative use of mound tools. As legend goes, Sutton put a note in his glove that he was sure would be inspected by an umpire: "You're getting warm, but it's not here." Ford later admitted he used his wedding ring to cut baseballs and something he called "gunk," a mixture of rosin, baby oil and turpentine.
And the old farmer? Gosh, he wasn't the least embarrassed by any taint. He was darn proud.
"If I were Kenny, I'd go shake their hands with mine full of pine tar so that they'd stick to 'em," Perry said. "That's what I used to do. The day before I pitched, I'd do it with Vaseline. (Opposing players) would say, 'What are you doing?' And I'd say, 'Gettin' ready for tomorrow night.' " (USA Today)

- Hall of Fame Player Joe Morgan admitted playing with corked bats. (ESPN)
- Hall of Fame player TY COBB was just an all around bad human being

It’s impossible to list all Ty’s acts of violence. But here are a few. 1907: Slapped a black groundskeeper; when the man’s wife protested, he grabbed her by the neck. 1908: Assaulted a black laborer; shoved a black chambermaid down the stairs. 1909: Slapped a black elevator operator for being “insolent.” When a night watchman (also black) broke it up, Cobb slashed him several times with a knife. Fined $100. 1912: Pistol-whipped a would-be mugger to death; pummeled a crippled fan. 1914: Threatened a butcher with a gun and pistol-whipped his black assistant. Babe Ruth said it best: “Ty Cobb is a prick.”(Maxim)

-Babe Ruth - THE SULTAN OF SWAT, The BIG BAMBINO - The best player to ever play both Pichter and An everyday player and hit 714HR's in a time where that number was unheard of....

.was a known womanizer. Knowing to father at least 1 child outside of his marriage.

Dorothy Ruth Pirone, whose father was Babe Ruth but who did not learn the identity of her natural mother until she was 59 years old, died yesterday at her home in Durham, Conn. She was 68 years old.Dorothy Ruth Pirone, whose father was Babe Ruth but who did not learn the identity of her natural mother until she was 59 years old, died yesterday at her home in Durham, Conn. She was 68 years old. For most of her life, Mrs. Pirone was led to believe that her mother was the baseball star's first wife, Helen. Over the years, Mr. Ruth and his first wife gave conflicting birth dates and details. It was not until 1980 that Mrs. Pirone learned her real mother was Juanita Jennings, a woman she had grown up knowing and loving as a close family friend.
Last year, Mrs. Pirone wrote a book about her father, ''My Dad, the Babe,'' which was co-authored by Chris Martens and published on the 40th anniversary of her father's death, Aug. 16, 1988.(NY Times Obituaries)

I understand that the term "Performance enhancer" has become the definition of banned substances in competitive sporting events. As defined by dictionary.com to enhance is to

1. To make greater, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment.

That seems simple enough, to make greater effectiveness; to augment performance.
What is the different in quarterbacks, pitchers, everyday players injecting cortisone shots in there muscles so that they can perform. If they were unable to play EFFECTIVELY without the shot, and the shot makes them play effective, then is that not by definition to enhance? yeah yeah, I know what the common excuse is, "The cortisone brings them to 100 percent, steroids and the clear makes them play above their ability." What does that mean, when people say they are playing above their ability? If they are performing at a level that is quantifiable better than their previous ability, then by default their ability level perception needs to be modified when analyzing a player. But maybe that is to disconnected from common logic since most people will never be professional athlete. It is safe to assume that a majority of the population will have children, are will be guardians of children(adoption, foster system).
If someone had a child who made C's throughout elementry but in the transition year in between elementry and middle school the child's guardian was encouraged by the administration to enhance their childs performance in the class room to avoid the child falling behind his classmates. The summer time the guardian/parent takes the child to all types of tutors(Practice equivalent in sports) put the child on ritilan, adderal(Performance enhancers) to help them focus and calm down. The new semester at school the child brings home all B's a great improvement, and the following year bring home straight A's. Would their be any parent of other failing students saying, that child is using performance enhancers and performing above his ability and make sense? I sure hope not, because that would be insane and call out over 1/3 of today's students in the education system.
Why are there separate expectations for athletes, what do people really expect. Everyone hats steroids, but no one said anything when the statistics started to soar. Superior performance is what everyone wants, in life and in sports but don't want to think about the societal implications of making examples of athletes. What would an office place be without performance enhancers like Coffee(Caffeine), pharmaceuticals prescriptions(Depression drugs, ADD drugs, ADHD drugs,), Many drugs that are illegal without a prescription, much like steroids. Sports are merely a reflection of society, you have your crazies, your cheaters, your naturally extraordinary people, innovators. But a reflection, when home-runs where being hit every day taking baseball out of sports purgatory(Post-Strike) American sports fans could care less how it was done but the results were nice, much like the economy. When Americans found out the how then the results became a problem, now look at the economy. Just think TAX CUTS=Performance Enhancers, they cant last for ever and the effects of taking them last along time.

Vodka & Drugs

The Liquor Business is apparently good business

"Sweden’s famed Absolut vodka will become absolutely French — in ownership at least — following a successful $8.34 billion bid from Pernod Ricard SA...The government said it selected Pernod Ricard’s bid on Sunday over three other offers, by liquor groups Fortune Brands and Bacardi Ltd. and an investment group controlled by Sweden’s Wallenberg family."

I didn't realize that Absolut Vodka was owned by the Swedish government, 8.34 billion is a good reason to sell it. Especially if it is still going to be produced in Sweden.

I Prefer arthritis to have a heart attack, but that is just me?

This is a weird a commercial, it defiantly makes me want to live with the pain rather than taken the pill that could kill me.

Not only does Celebrex increase the chance of a heart attack, it BOOST HEART ATTACK risks. But don't worry, Celbrex has never been taking off of the market. For now......

"doctors should prescribe the lowest doses of Celebrex possible in patients at high risk of heart problems, researchers who did a combined analysis of six studies of the Pfizer Inc. pain drug said on Monday.The analysis suggests that the potentially harmful effect of Celebrex dosage is most pronounced in higher-risk patients, researchers said at the American College of Cardiology scientific meeting.MSNBC"

Way to go FDA, once again looking out for number one. CHa CHing $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

You might have well have been taken suger pills, because Vytorin and Zetia sure don't work.

"Leading doctors urged a return to older, tried-and-true treatments for high cholesterol after hearing full results Sunday of a failed trial of Vytorin.Millions of Americans already take the drug or one of its components, Zetia. But doctors were stunned to learn that Vytorin failed to improve heart disease..The study was closely watched because Zetia and Vytorin have racked up $5 billion in sales despite limited proof of benefit. Two Congressional panels launched probes into why it took drugmakers nearly two years after the study’s completion to release results."(MSNBC)

Who would of thought, the reason why the truth couldnt come out was because of the clotting agent...Money. I hope the patients that were subscribed this drug and brought into the scam win their lawsuit. This is a blatant example of a scam, the drug makers new it was ineffective yet misrepresented its effectiveness for atleast 2 years.
Lawsuits claim drugmakers misled consumers about effectiveness(MSNBC)

Sex, STD, & Client #9

1 in 4!

I don't think current sex education techniques are working, either that or people just magically develop STD's. A CDC report released last weeks stated that 1 in 4 girls have an STD. ABC.com reports

At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19...About half of the girls acknowledged ever having sex; among them, the rate was 40 percent. While some teens define sex as only intercourse, other types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some infections.For many, the numbers likely seem "overwhelming because you're talking about nearly half of the sexually experienced teens at any one time having evidence of an STD," said Dr. Margaret Blythe, an adolescent medicine specialist at Indiana University School of Medicine and head of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on adolescence. But the study highlights what many doctors who treat teens see every day, Blythe said. Dr. John Douglas, director of the CDC's division of STD prevention, said the results are the first to examine the combined national prevalence of common sexually transmitted diseases among adolescent girls. He said the data, from 2003-04, likely reflect current rates of infection

Where the hell is the government intervention, this is destroying an entire generation. Oh yeah, this current government doesn't care about people, only about halliburton. On another note, I wonder how is the conversation between people on those wonderful valtrex commercials.
Person without Herpes: So baby this is the night
Herpes Person: I dont think its the right time
PWH: What do you mean
HP: I just dont want to get hurt again
PWH: I wont Hurt you I promise
HP: ITs not you its me
PWH: O, that line
HP: No I have herpes, but I take my Valtrex everyday to limit my out breaks.
PWH: (RUns away like the wind)
HP: I know you didnt love me, you were just going to use me
PWH: NO you have HERPES, have you seen that shit. Woops dumb question. Of course you have, but I dont plan to get a closer look dirty ho.
HP::'(Dont leave, I havent had a break out in days
Boys are assholes. My crotch itches. Time for a valtrex (cries)
I knew other people had these same opinions, You Tube is great. Here is another video for your enjoyment.

Since we are on the topic of sex: Love Client #9 Resigned

Spitzer FBI affidavit(Smokinggun.com)
Eliot's Prostitute (Smokinggun.com) Right you left home at 17 to be a singer, I'm sure this will help your career, but at 5,000 dollars an hour I doubt she needed any help. Don't be sad prostitute girl, the record industry is just like prostitution. Your a hofessional I am sure those skills transfer to other careers like........................Stripping..............& Stripping..................... thats all I can think of, but I am sure life will get better for you here on out.

Now Mr. Spitzer can be an Everyday regular normal guy. Before you click, there is cursing so NSFW(Which means you will probably click it, go ahead you know you want to)

Drugs & Water a delicious cocktail

"We know we are being exposed to other people's drugs through our drinking water, and that can't be good," Dr. David Carpenter

The over prescription of drugs is not only ridiculous but dumb. We as citizens give these drug companies our economy and we are rewarded with trace elements of drugs in our drinking water. caffeine, sulfamethoxazole, diltiazem, acetaminophen, trimethoprim, cotinine and paraxanthine, gemfibrozil, ibuprofen, sulfamethaxazole and ethinyl estradiol, azithromycin, erythromycin, roxithromycin, tylosin, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin and caffeine. These are a few of the drugs found in water of 24 states(AP 2008), these states include California, Texas(Arlington not Houston or Lubbock :)), New York, New Jersey, Colorado. Matter of a fact, I will just let you see the visual representation brought to you by the good people of Turner Broadcasting.


For all the lucky winners of the pharmaceutical lottery in Arlington, have no rights to find out what is in their water. Silly citizens, thinking you have rights hahahahahahahah.

Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck said he would not name the lone pharmaceutical chemical found in the city’s drinking water....Cluck declined to reveal the name of the drug found after water was treated or the five drugs found in pretreatment for security reasons. He said he did not want to reveal what drugs were or were not being effectively eliminated from Arlington’s drinking water. Dallas Morning News

Its a good thing that the EPA requires testing to protect us. Oh they don't? O well thank god for beer. Maybe the alcohol will destroy the some of the side effects.

I would like to apologize

I would like to apologize to the 3 people that read this blog for my lack of thought. This caught my eye, somewhere in between "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and Madden 06 . While watching the super bowl, this advertisement somewhat irked me. Does the race car drive, really tell the audience to not bother reading the side effects of a drug. Wow, I knew the FDA didn't do shit, they are dysfunctional and inefficient. I would think the FTC would have something to say. Janet Jacksons boob was a national outcry, and that image hurt no one. That image alone probably saved a few marriages. Not reading drug labels, can kill you; they should make a did you know commercial for that. Here is the video below, enjoy:


Peace in the middle east

Brain Matures a Few Years Late in ADHD, But Follows Normal Pattern

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Compontent of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report.

In youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)....the brain matures in a normal pattern but is delayed three years in some regions, on average, compared to youth without the disorder, an imaging study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has revealed. The delay in ADHD was most prominent in regions at the front of the brain’s outer mantle (cortex), important for the ability to control thinking, attention and planning. Otherwise, both groups showed a similar back-to-front wave of brain maturation with different areas peaking in thickness at different times

"Finding a normal pattern of cortex maturation, albeit delayed, in children with ADHD should be reassuring to families and could help to explain why many youth eventually seem to grow out of the disorder," explained Philip Shaw, M.D., NIMH Child Psychiatry Branch, who led research team....

The researchers scanned most of the 446 participants — ranging from preschoolers to young adults — at least twice at about three-year intervals. They focused on the age when cortex thickening during childhood gives way to thinning following puberty, as unused neural connections are pruned for optimal efficiency during the teen years.

In both ADHD and control groups, sensory processing and motor control areas at the back and top of the brain peaked in thickness earlier in childhood, while the frontal cortex areas responsible for higher-order executive control functions peaked later, during the teen years. These frontal areas support the ability to suppress inappropriate actions and thoughts, focus attention, remember things from moment to moment, work for reward, and control movement — functions often disturbed in people with ADHD.

The word that stands out to me and now to you, due to me putting the word in bold letters in NORMAL. If all these children [I dont have statistics, but the website for the drug concerta says; approximately 8 to 10 percent of the school-age population. In fact, these statistics indicate that it's possible another student in your child's classroom may also have ADHD.] are normal. Why are there so many drugs for treatments of normal people?

Concerta,
Methylphenidate Hcl,
Rilatine,
Ritalin,
Ritalin-SR,
Rubifen,
Adderall,
Betanamin(banned in America),
Cylert(banned in America),
Tradon(banned in America),
Dexedrine,
Ritalin-SR,
Rubifen,
Strattera,
Just to name a few

Just think about it, do you really want someone you care about to be on mind altering drugs?