Originally published January 17 2004
Drugging our kids: Nicotine patches for schoolchildren?
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Smokers have long insisted that cigarettes helped them concentrate.
Nicotine, it seems, exhibits powerful pharmacological effects on the
brain. Now, some researchers are proposing that nicotine patches could
help people with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD or ADHD, depending on
which version of the myth you believe). Nicotine patches for
children? Makes perfect sense to some researchers, and it makes a LOT of
sense for the companies that manufacture the nicotine patches. With
smoking rates slowly falling in the U.S., the market for nicotine
patches doesn't have a strong future. But if you can line up
schoolchildren to wear them and, of course, get them hooked on nicotine
for life, then you generate an extraordinary volume of repeat business.
Schoolchildren are already widely dosed with Ritalin, a strong
narcotic. Nicotine is no more bizarre. Make no mistake: these studies on
nicotine are little more than a ploy to find new victims to addict to
this deadly drug that has already wreaked untold havoc on the U.S.
population over the last hundred years. I can't wait to see a study that
says children wearing nicotine patches score better on math and reading
skills tests. Maybe they'll sell nicotine candy in the high school
vending machines right next to the liquid candy known as soft drinks.
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