Empowering Women in Chiropractic - Drugging of Our Children - Part 4 - Claudia Anrig DC

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Hello, everybody. I'm Dr. Claudia Anrig. And one of my areas, especially is family wellness, how to grow family practices. And I have over 35 years of family practice. And I'm also known as a co editor of the textbook pediatric chiropractic. It's in the third edition. If you have the white cover one that is lovely, but it's missing eight new, amazing chapters, everything with breastfeeding tongue tie.

Extremity adjusting on the safety of adjusting children and three extra techniques in there. So if you haven't if you don't have not invested in the blue version of it, please do your it's just a great reference point for you as a family wellness chiropractor a book to go back to learn more and to get all that information.

I'm so excited today about talking about drugging of children 4, on psychostimulants. And right now, we're going to go to the slides, but I want to thank, number one, ChiroSecure because they've done such an amazing job. They just care about our profession and they're here to support you. So again, if you're needing to actively get the most amazing malpractice go to ChiroSecure.

So hello everybody. As we were mentioning earlier. about the drugging of children part four. I'm going to get a little bit into psychostimulants and what's really amazing is that through the field of psychiatry, American Academy of Pediatrics, even to some degree the FDA, we just know that these drugs are not good for the pediatric population.

But the problem is with these kiddos is that their parents are so frustrated. The school system is so frustrated that is at the end result. What happens if these kids get on drugs through again, sometimes the referrals from the pediatric area from counseling into school and the frustration of the combination that a lot of times parents don't have time like teachers, they don't have time to work with kids.

And so the end result is more and more children are being using these psycho stimulants. And it started off with products like, maybe Prozac it started off with products like Ritalin. I'd like to break this all down and share with you how scary they are. What's happening is in the pediatric population, and we saw, we don't have all the numbers out yet, but in the last decade plus, we've had a massive increase of the psychostimulants.

And since COVID, and again, those stats are not out yet, but the American Academy. of pediatric, notice that a high rise of depression, anxiety of children. So if that was on the rise, what's the first thing they're going to go to? They're going to go to the drug world. So a lot of these side effects I'm going to show you today are related to what these kids, even the, what we call the COVID kids, what they're being exposed to.

The problem is that When these drugs are being recommended out, prescribed out for him, our problem is that if a child really does have an emotional dysfunction going on, and maybe sometimes it's only really a small event our problem is that the pediatrician is making the recommendation of the drug, where Dr.

Bregan, he's a psychiatrist, one of my favorite people on the planet, I really like Dr. Bregan's approach is that let's get Psychotherapy, let's get some kind of emotional therapy, even spiritual therapy would be better than putting children on drugs. But the result is that they are getting, unfortunately, children being exposed to drugs and once you start them on there, it's a downward spiral for these kids.

What's going on with antidepressants, it's just So crazy. There are newer types of the drugs coming out and you have to remember, there's something called off labeling. So if a doctor if a drug was tested for an adult and it's been o okay by the FDA, it, going back to knowing that the FDA, once they give that approval allows.

the physician to off label to experiment on children and so forth. Eli Lilly Prozac product was so popular from 20 from 2004 to 2023. It's one of the number one drugs Prozac I'm using on children. They say it's safe for children from seven to 17. I've seen studies and read papers where they're actually using these.

Simulants antidepressants on children as young as age 3, 4, and 5. The problem with this is that it can create it's used to treat manic depressive disorder and so forth, but also with it. It's being one of the top sellers for depression and in the last a couple of decades, it lasts 10, 10 to 15 years.

Pardon me. It's a two billion dollar industry and annual industry on the drugs. In the era of the psycho pharmacological drugs and pediatric subcommittees, basically what they're realizing is that they're creating a more avenue Their approach is not to give less drugs, but they think that more children should be on these chemicals.

So whether it's Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, these are all the ones with the advisory board that they're thinking, okay let's get these new warnings out for these children. Wellbutrin. Sometimes it's used as a weight loss drug and so forth. And with all this public health advisory, one of the things that people need to know is that many of them can contribute to suicide.

And so this is a very sad thing. There's a book that was written out by, again, one of my friends Paul Bregan is an empty psychiatrist here, and it's called the medication madness, the role. psychiatric drugs for violence, suicide and crime. Again, not an easy read, but it really makes you realize that this combination is what we call a lethal weapon in the hands of these Children.

Some of the side effects if you're taking if these Children on antidepressants, anxiety, agitation, insomnia and panic attacks. They get irritability, hostility and over impulsive. So imagine if we're Treating you for a problem, but now we're creating irritability or hostility. So now that's another behavioral problem That's not being treated.

So again, we suppress it maybe with another drug mania hypomania children being restless again Remember these children from age 7 on up can be prescribed these medications the sad things about antidepressants the way that the It's been by design is that it has a chemical outcome of using meth cocaine or pcp It's identical.

So it basically wires the brain for this inconsistency and it creates violence and aggression And that doesn't fit in a lot of these children, by the way who have been school violence and all the rest are all tied into a lot of them were on Ritalin for ADHD, antidepressants are all tied into the same family and so forth.

One of the things that we need to know is that these drugs here are really, it's quickly, it's difficult to get on, they're difficult to get off and even getting off. are massive side effects to these kids. Also antidepressants in the adult world as well as a teen world. They're using that antidepressants to weight loss suppress.

And so depending on what's the complexity of what's going on, maybe in the families and so forth a medical doctor, Patricia might actually put a child on in a depressant for weight loss program. This is my guide. Bregan, who I really love about him. He's a psychiatrist. He's a gentleman. He was the watchdog in his own profession about how we were hurting, killing adults and then in the pediatric arena.

And so he's written numerous books, but anywhere that you could get any of the Bregan's books, I would encourage you to do that. He is, again, he realizes, look, we have to acknowledge there is suppression and there's a profound, maybe loss of. Hopelessness, but he says, look, the answer is, and I love it, psychotherapy, educational and spiritual or religious intervention that we could do more if we had an ongoing relation conversation with these young people versus the uses of drugs.

Other book places ago is breeden.com. Fight for Kids IC CPA for kids.org. Here are some of his books. The Ritalin Factbook, Talking Back to Ritalin, Brain Disability, Treatments of Psychiatry, Prozac, and so forth. So he's prolific. He's written a ton of books. It doesn't mean you have to have all of them.

But it just, for those of you who have a lending library in your reception room, I think a few of these books out here would be very powerful to let an MD do the talking. And with all that's going on with ADHD and the conspiracy, there's a lot of misinformation out there. And part of that goes to that Decades ago, about in the 1980s, they realized we have to normalize.

this thing called A. D. A. D. H. D. And if we make it, nice chapter association, national association, and not only was it in the pediatric population, but they realized now a lot of adults are being diagnosed with that. The more we normalize it. The easier it is to on ramp these kids and these adults taking medication to treat it rather than trying to find behavioral changes that they could do activities, change of diet.

So already in the 1990s, we have a little under a million kids that were on Ritalin and now we're four to 6 million and the number one abuser. of Ritalin is North America, specifically the United States. If you go to if you go to Europe, nobody uses Ritalin. They just change activity, they change diet, but they don't medicate in many countries because they know it's not safe.

So the majority, 90%, is given here in the United States. And it's it's a moneymaker and what happens is a lot of the drug industry, what they've done is funded some of the, they're quote nonprofits doctors and by by stimulating the motivation of getting these chapters to get started to help normalize it, make it more mainstream.

And the National Institute of Mental Health, basically this organization said that four to five million users of Ritalin doesn't have to be taking it all so that the majority of kids don't really need to have it, even though they might be on it. Dr. Nora Volga. She is a very interesting researcher and she did research on what happens if you used Ritalin and based on her research and her paper, she basically said if you use Ritalin, In the pediatric population.

It's no different. It's potent, like using cocaine to the brain that you're actually going to get them addicted to have that kind of a high. And so what it does is the receptors get the stimulant of the Ritalin. So it's like a cocaine high is what happens. And then it changes a child's learning. behavior.

And then what does it take the stimulant at the high level? If somebody's taking Ritalin, there's an increased heartbeat, high blood pressure, heart attack could be related to it. If we're talking the nervous system, this is short term depression, convulsions, hallucinations, and altered mental status. It's central nervous system, short term again, irritation, hostility, and happiness, tics, obsessive compulsive behavior could be tied in.

In the use of, they didn't have the problem beforehand, but the use of Ritalin changes our behavior. Other short term effects, eating disorders, vomiting, blurred vision, dizziness, and so forth. What happens also, if we do the short term effect, what about if you rebound or you start withdrawing from it it makes, of course, the symptoms worse.

There's evening crashes. It has to be, so if somebody's going to come off of it, it has to be safely done, very slow. And very steady. And this should be done with again, using the medical community because as a chiropractor, we know we don't put kids or adults on drugs. We don't take them off of drugs, but it has to be done very safely.

One of the things that is really sad about the use of Ritalin. The long term effect is that it short circuits the reward system of the brain. Where, when you're a kid and you work really hard to accomplish a good paper or test or run that lap and you won or whatever you did, you worked hard towards and then that's, then you had that natural high that was being released.

When a child is using Ritalin as a child or a teenager, what we do is we damage the circuit there. And so it, they're gonna always be looking for a shortcut to stimulate their brain this way. And that, and we're talking, it changes reward, stimuli, and it increases negative responses, and it can create really severe situations.

Also, very interesting, but hard to find, but I did find this information. If the military, particularly certain military Components. If they know that you as a child, you were on Ritalin for periods of time. There is after the age of 12, you're probably, you're not going to be eligible for many areas of service in the military and so forth, because they know that you've been wired up here a little bit different.

And so you're not, that child is not going to be maybe a safe candidate for certain parts of service in in the military itself. There's also a long term The effect of the fact of many Children who have died of Ritalin. It's been underreported and it's a known fact. We just don't have a great tracking system, but there's a lot of deaths linked to Children misuse of Ritalin.

And then also a lot of times what has happened because it's underreporting. Either the child took too much, caregivers gave too much. And so again, early death of Children related to that. There was one study of Ritalin. They talked about also the kids in particularly between ages of six or nine the chances of being overdosed because of primarily caregivers not realizing they do something and they gave him a second or a third dose, which is really sad.

And then again, just too much access because of the caregiver side of stuff. A lot of times really is provided at the school campus, meaning the school nurses have it to just To distribute to the children, but most of it the kid receives the medication in the morning hours. I know of parents because I just recently, in the last year and a half it's been very difficult to get Ritalin as a drug.

And so what they've done is stockpiling it for their kids. Or they go to, they've been going to other states to try to get the Ritalin for their kids. Or what they do is, they're trying to spread out the Ritalin in the school week and then take them off on the weekends so they have enough. So it's really strange when there's been now a shortage of Ritalin.

And so forth what people are doing to scramble to try to find it and so forth There was a Harvard study docs that was done and basically it was a neuropsychology Of a post grad department and what they did is they took 20 kids, which really is enough So you took 20 kids and they treated him with Ritalin and they took 20 kids and they actually gave them Just change the nutrition and gave them supplements and so forth and in this very small Study they found out it was about identical if you give kids Ritalin They got their their changes.

But if you change diet, support, nutrition, all the rest, you would actually have an equal, which makes us, imagine if they were throwing in chiropractic at that time. That would have been fabulous, because those kids would have had, with nutrition and supplementation, would have been doing a lot better.

And look at all the things. This is like the American diet. Heavy metal. Low protein high carbohydrates that they have thyroid disorders because of their diet and their stressors are all the rest and all the food additives and the allergies are related to it as well. And again, one of the things that they discovered over at Harvard, mineral imbalances, essential fatty acid deficiencies, vitamin B deficiency.

So imagine if these children were out of balance, if we just through supplements. cleaner diets and again, the power of a chiropractic adjustment. How many of these kids could we help them balance out for their lives? And so again, really high recommendation. We just need to start educating our moms and dads that maybe there's an alternative way or parallel well way if, maybe if we could help them through adjusting and cleaner diets that the kids may not have to take as high dose as they have.

One of the things also, is a chiropractor that we have to look at is a tying in, as you and I with the kids with depression and ADHD, how can chiropractic help? And it's really simple. We have to be positive. The parents and we have no, you know what? We can't cure things that's not what chiropractic is a cure, but we're here to prove what a child's quality of life, the family's quality of life, a classroom quality of life.

And then we could be a practice of hope for many families bringing them in. And it's really simple. I'm going to encourage you. You family wellness, chiropractors are watching me here today. You're a resource teller. Don't give up. So find books and get papers and have encouraging talks in your adjusting room to encourage these parents.

Because number one, It's the chiropractor. We're the ones we have to tell them that they're overdrugging our children as you look at different drugging of Children. My part from 1 to 4 here. It's too easy over the counter. It's too easy being prescribed. Parents don't have time to have sick kids. And this is why it's a chiropractor.

Our answer is we care about your lifestyle. We care about how your Children are growing up and we could be the wellness movement within our own community and all the rest. And it's all about improving what? the improving body function through the nervous system and how important that is and how you as a family well as chiropractor, particularly if you're seeing a family twice a month, once a month, weekly, whatever your schedule is, you could be the positive encouragement to get them in the right direction and look what it's chiropractors.

We're not anti drug. We just say, let's change the lifestyle like they do in Europe and And if you go to second or third world countries, they have their problems, trust me, with malnutrition, all the rest, but they don't have anxiety or they don't have depression, they don't have ADHD and all these other issues because the fact that they live a simpler life, they have less stress, they don't have technology, they're eating a lot simpler and so forth.

And one of the most important things that you as my fellow colleague have, you're number one. We teach from the inside out. We're not the outside in. We're the inside out professional. And we can just give them just other choices that, come talk to me. What are your concerns? And we can look up things and share that information to them.

And look, we're the alternative choice. And if they could just get to us and just know that we could help them out. Docs, that would be the thing that we're looking forward to be the positive thing to offer friends and family members and so forth and invite them. Invite him to come in into practice and have just a consult with you if somebody's not sure just invite him because the thing is that a lot of times you think if I can get a drug over the counter, if it can be prescribed, isn't it safe?

And as you saw me going through the series, there's no safe about this. And so we would just really encourage you just to start chatting with individuals. We just could slow down the amount of chemicals kids are being exposed and let them grow up with their bodies without the interference. How much healthier our system is.

And that's why, again, we always think that there are five steps to healthier thinking, and I'm just going to bring them through. Number one, practice the lifestyle. Who better to teach that than you, the family and wellness chiropractor. Number two be involved. You have to encourage moms and dads to be really super involved.

Ask more questions. Get involved more with the decision. Don't just accept. I was told to do that. Ask the question and find if there's something non invasive more than they could do also to, you have to build a wellness team and tell them, look, it could be do a, find a practitioner who's more of a wait and watch, maybe referring them to a naturopath over a pediatrician that was really heavy on drugs, a wellness minded pediatrician, or involving others like somebody who has homeopathy, your chiropractor and all the rest.

And then one of the most important things is wait and watch before you make any decision. Just just tell the doctor, we're going to wait a little bit. We'd like to come back and ask some more questions, but if you race off already making decision, when you were just discussed with that for five, 10 or 15 minutes, it might be one of the worst decisions that family or that child is going to be exposed to.

And always remember, more and more, the studies are showing that drugs are not safe in the pediatric arena. And the problem is that drugs are going up with children, they're not going down. And so one of the things we want to encourage you docs, is again Just know that knowledge and caring and loving and educating is it and who better than the family wellness chiropractor Again, if you don't have the third edition textbook, I would encourage you to do that.

I would also encourage you Make sure you go to my website. drclaudianrig.Com. I see my seminars first adjustment Where i'm being where I teach in the spring or fall of each year and so forth. I look forward to meeting you soon Take care everybody Today's pediatrics show, To the Children, was brought to you by ChiroSecure.

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