This document discusses mental health issues among students and children and trends in prescription drug use. It notes that nearly 1 in 6 high school students have considered suicide and 1 in 12 have attempted it. Additionally, millions of children are prescribed medications for conditions like asthma, ADHD, depression, and other psychological issues. The document also promotes the benefits of chiropractic care, discussing how it can improve physical, mental, and emotional states as well as quality of life. It contrasts a view of suffering and victimhood with empowerment and a more positive outlook.
2. Nearly 1 in 6 high school students has
seriously considered suicide,
1 in 12 has attempted it.
-CDC report
3. 45 million children are on asthma meds,
24 million are on ADHD medications,
10 million are on antidepressants
6.5 million on other antipsychotics.
2011 IMS Health data
4.
5. The 5th and 6th
best-selling prescription drugs:
Abilify and Seroquel: antipsychotics.
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9. University of California Irvine
Chiropractic Research Study
•Improved Physical State:
•Improved Mental Emotional State
•Improved Response to Stress
•Improved Life Enjoyment
•Improved Overall Quality of Life
12. Them Vs. Us
• Suffering
• Looking for a
magic bullet
• Fearful
• Vicitm
• DisEmpowered
• Barely Alive
• Lost Hope
• Tv watchin’
• Pill poppin
• Disconnected
•Hippie
•Huggers
•Environmentalists
•Activists
•Fire Walking
•Sky Diving
•Supplement Poppin’
•Subluxation Crushin’
13.
14. Innate Intelligence is
a sacred goddess
and
Educated Intelligence is
a
loyal servant.
We live in a world that
glorifies the servant and
dismisses the goddess.
-Pam Jarboe, DC
States spend nearly $1 billion annually on medical costs associated with completed suicides and suicide attempts by youth up to 20 years of age.8Suicide is the third leading cause of death in youth ages 15 to 24. More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza and chronic lung disease combined.5 Over 90 percent of children and adolescents who commit suicide have a mental disorder.6In the United States in the year 2002, almost 4,300 young people ages 10 to 24 died by suicide.77 Kochanek KD, Murphy SL anderson RN, Scott C. Deaths: Final data for 2002. National vital statistics reports; vol. 53 no 5. Hyattsville,Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 2004.6 Shaffer, D., & Craft, L. “Methods of Adolescent Suicide Prevention.” Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 60 (Suppl. 2), 70-74, 1999.7 Kochanek KD, Murphy SL anderson RN, Scott C. Deaths: Final data for 2002. National vital statistics reports; vol. 53 no 5. Hyattsville,Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 2004.8 NGA Center for Best Practices, Youth Suicide Prevention: Strengthening State Policies and School-Based StrategiesYouth Suicide StatisticsDataAnnual number of youth suicides each year (ages 10-24)4,600Percent of youth suicides that include a firearm45 %Percent of youth suicides that include suffocation40 %Percent of youth suicides that include poisoning8 %Percent of students grades 9-12 who reported seriously considering suicide16 %Percent who reported creating a plan13 %Annual number of youth (age 10-24) who receive medical care for self-inflicted injuries157,000Percent of suicide deaths that are males81 %
with a new report from Medco Health Solutions Inc. saying that at least a quarter of all U.S. children are now regularly taking pharmaceutical drugs. And according to the report, many of these drugs were originally intended for adults, and carry with them unknown side effects for long-term use in young people.The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports that in addition to taking drugs for conditions like attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and asthma, children are now taking things like sleeping pills, diabetes drugs and even statin drugs, which are typically only prescribed for adults. The report cites an eight-year-old boy, for example, who has been taking blood pressure medications since he was a baby.Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030879_children_drugs.html#ixzz2YBQp7gnG"A chronic condition in a child will become a chronic condition in an adult -- we just know that. And what you're talking about for an adult is maybe 10, 20 years of suffering. But with a child, you're talking about maybe 50, 60 years of suffering," said the journal's editor-in-chief, pediatrician Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, during a Tuesday teleconference.-JAMAAccording to the analysis by Perrin and colleagues, more than 7 percent of U.S. children and youth were hampered in their daily activities by an illness that lasted three months or longer in 2004, compared to just 1.8 percent of children in 1960.Chronic conditions now affect 15 percent to 18 percent of children and teens, and even those estimates may not fully account for obesity and mental health woes, the Harvard team said.The "big three" chronic health conditions for kids are obesity, which affected 5 percent of American children in the early 1970s but 18 percent of children today; asthma (9 percent prevalence, nearly double from the 1980s), and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (a dramatic rise, mostly linked to better diagnosis).
Acid reflux medication prescribed to infants: 7x higher in 2004 than in 1999. .5 percent of the infants studied received the medication within the first year.50% received the drugs before they were 4 months old.The FDA has never approved the use of these drugs on this age group.
In 2011: 3.1 million: $18.2 billion 13% increase over the previous yearThe combined spending on print and digital media advertising for these new antipsychotic drugs increased to $2.4 billion in 2010, up from $1.3 billion in 2007, according to Kantar Media.
Autism now affects 1 in 88 children and 1 in 54 boysAutism prevalence figures are growingAutism is the fastest-growing serious developmental disability in the U.S.Autism costs a family $60,000 a year on average
69% of the chiropractic children (kids who receive regular chiropractic care) have never had an ear infection, while only 20% of the children who only receive medical care. Medical treatment is disease treatment. Chiropractic healthcare is primarily preventative. The study has shown that children raised with getting chiropractic care are less prone to infectious processes such as ear infections and tonsillitis and their immune systems are better able to cope with allergens like pollen, weeds, grasses, etc. compared to children who do not receive chiropractic care. Recovery time from any trauma or illness was more rapid than that other children.
One group received chiropractic care for two weeks and the other group was given the anti-gas medication dimethicone for two weeks. The babies in the chiropractic group showed a 67% decrease in crying while the babies on medication showed a 38% decrease in crying. Another study with 316 children also showed significant improvement in colic in response to chiropractic care. This prospective study used diaries from mothers of colicky babies to track the amount of crying. The three month long study showed a "satisfactory result of spinal manipulative therapy in 94% of the cases". The improvements occurred after an average of only three adjustments within two weeks.
Improvement was reported for 90.1% of subjects 60 days after chiropractic care in comparison to their pre- chiropractic scores. In addition, 30.9% of the children voluntarily decreased their dosage of medication by an average of 66.5% while under chiropractic care. Twenty-four of the patients who reported asthma attacks 30-days prior to the study had significantly decreased attacks by an average of 44.9%. Six different chiropractic techniques were used by the different chiropractors who participated in this study.
If we could think of our new patient visit as just the beginning. You would never hear some one giving dating advice of shove the ring down their throat on the first date. And yet, that is a phrase I have heard from more than one chiropractic leader in this profession at a seminar. Instead of thinking about what YOU are saying….think of what THEY are hearing. Ask questions. Guide one step at a time. Value a long term relationship. Respect thme and their choices. Story of Mary: Invest and lost and invest and lost.
"It doesn't matter how you see the world. What matters is how the world sees YOU.“ Stop enforcing your world view on others. Listen more. Lecture less.
Hold a space of knowing where you are the same and where you are different. All beings want happiness for themselves and their loved ones. All of us want to avoid suffereing. We all will die someday. We all want for ourselves and our loved ones to be safe. We all want for ourselves and our loved ones to be fed. Maintain the humility of knowing that you are the same as them and the dignity of having incredible ability to help others.We are truly an Incredible, extraordinary, awesome, amazing, revolutionary group of people. We are rare. One of my mentors once emphasized an important gift that great leaders and healers know. They know the places where they are the same as others (we all love our children, feel sadness at times, long for love)and they know where they are different. If you truly can resonate with this concept you will not be soooo different that people cannot connect and relate with you. Then knowing the places that you are different allows you to lead them into their next level of growth.
We have a negative brand equity in the way the public perceives chiropractic. Our leaders have to deal with the problem of that on a global level but we have to KNOW that on a local level when someone walks in our office, they are usually in the negative quotient and we need to be very aware of where on the scale they are.
Bridge busters:Making excuses and blaming othersNot being credible. Making claims you cannot back up. Not listeningInterruptingBeing righteous.Being inconsistent or sending mixed signals.Lack of Financial ClarityInappropriatenessBeing clutchey/pushey NON magnetic about patientsAnswering your own phoneNot grooming or dressing professionally.Swearing.Being mean on FacebookUndermining your credibility by thinkingyou are above the rules.Livingalife out of balance.Not taking care of YOUR health.