Straight Talk with Bill Frady 9/1/26 Hour 2 - Host Tony Dale discusses adult ADHD over-prescription, Senator Ron Johnson's corruption warnings, film Revolutionary, and Congress.

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Transcript Tony Dale: All right, I'm going to do it. I'm going to disclose the broadcasting location. I know it said from an undisclosed broadcasting location. We're on Garlington Road near Woodruff. I'm just saying. Bill does it from a different location, so I can say that. I hope Bill isn't mad at me. I wouldn't want Bill mad at me, actually. [chuckles] I don't know, though; it'd be a tussle, Bill. But at any rate, before we get to rolling on kind of this other stuff I want to talk about, I do want to finish off some of these texts because there are some good ones on the Lindsay Clancy case. So, here's a text from a texter: "So Lindsay Clancy is a nurse, which means she knows what taking multiple prescriptions can do and they can have negative interactions and side effects. I really hope that this was brought up in court so she can't use the 'Oh, I was prescribed' rationale," which, by the way, she has. [clears throat] Pardon me. "Personally, I think she was manipulating the healthcare providers she saw." I wouldn't disagree with that, although my feelings about the psychiatric profession and their willingness to prescribe SSRIs to just pretty much anybody doesn't give me a lot of hope. Oh, you know what? Since I'm on that subject, let me—this ties right into this. I can still remember when they first came up with ADHD. Remember that? It was boys, then. We have to do something about these overactive boys in school; they're causing trouble. I happen to know, without a question, had they had these drugs when I was in school, oh, I'd have been, "Yeah, he's one of them, for sure." Well, anyway. So The New York Post wrote an interesting article, the same week, incidentally, that Lindsay Clancy's murder trial is wrapping up, about moms now being diagnosed with the alleged mental disorder of ADHD. So, let's, irrespective of what happens with the Clancy trial and the drug thing that's involved, okay, she has shined a very bright light now on this whole over-drugging of women as a method of behavioral treatment. So let's delve into this. So, just like Clancy's diagnosis of depression, anxiety, bipolar, and all of that, when it comes to ADHD, there just really is no objective, identifiable abnormality in a medical context. In other words, there's no blood test, scan, or biomarker; you can't do a CAT scan for it. It's just ADHD is a brain function of some kind that has been identified and targeted for treatment by using psychoactive drugs. Okay. So according to the American Psychiatric Association—I would just like to pause and remind you, these are the same boneheads that are all for transgender everything and let's cut off the organs of the children and, etc. But that's another story. So children 16 and under have to meet six out of nine symptoms, such as running around, climbing on furniture, unable to sit still, missing school assignments, disorganized bedrooms, not paying attention in class, interrupting teachers, or engaging in physically dangerous play. Now let's just stop for a second here. How many of you participated or exhibited some of these same characteristics? Thanks, John. My engineer friend is raising his hand; I'm raising both of mine on that one. So how about adult women? Well, according to the Psychiatric Association, they must meet only five of those nine symptoms, such as restlessness, leg jiggling, a drive to always stay busy, missing work deadlines, struggling to balance chores, bills, losing focus, impulsive spending, interrupting conversations, and making hasty decisions. So, there you go, ladies. Meet any five of those extraordinarily subjective behaviors and voila! You have a mental disorder: ADHD. In fact, the author of that particular study said the reality is ADHD, in a way, can help give people a superpower to overcome these things. Okay, well, the reality is, um, this isn't a superpower. Um, what it is is a way to give people drugs. So let me examine these ADHD drugs, then, that they're increas ...

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