Conversion therapy is also “voluntary”. The problem is that the treatment he proposes isn’t based on actual science.

He sees these medications as something people should not be on. He grouped SSRI’s and Adderall with opiates. This alone indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of these conditions and a negative bias towards valid treatment. If he was truly neutral he would not see these as something to get off of.

Do you have any reading comprehension? Adderall is a treatment for ADHD. ADHD cannot be cured by going to a camp. It’s as preposterous as saying autism can be cured.

What works for one person doesn’t work for others and shouldn’t be applied universally. If he wants rehab to be accessible he can make real rehab accessible.

The reason he wants them growing organic food is because he thinks these illnesses are food related lmfao. He is not a scientist.

Because these conditions are lifelong. ADHD doesn’t go away just because you went to a camp. There is quite literally, nothing to rehab from. It’s like saying you can cure autism.

Why is being sent away from society, for potentially years, better than just taking a pill that works for you? Why are we treating valid medication and valid treatment as something bad in the first place? Sure, it’s better to not need it at all, but if you do these treatments are not bad. These meds are being seen as way more negative than they actually are.

Going to a camp is really fucking extreme and overkill. It’s one thing to try meditation in place of medication, but this is so overkill when there’s a treatment option available that allows you to exist in society.

And why farming vegetables? If you are going to try to heal people, where’s the scientific basis for labour being the way to do it? Why farming? Spoiler: there isn’t one. Rehab (which should only be for addiction not guided medication as treatment) is a well researched field and this is not the most effective form.

It’s not making up conspiracy theories to realize the dude who said he wants people off certain drugs might implement policies that make it harder to access them.

Living drug free is only better if you genuinely don’t need drugs. If you need them, not having them isn’t good. It’s like saying “isn’t it better to not do chemotherapy?” Of course it is, but denying those with cancer chemo isn’t.

He’s introducing treatment for SSRI’s/Adderall with the goal of getting people off those drugs. It’s not insane to think this will make them harder to access. These treatments already can be difficult to access. Maybe they won’t be banned, but if “reparenting” is seen as the “better” treatment, what if doctors won’t prescribe proper medications without trying a camp first? What if people are reluctant to even seek help because they don’t want to go to a camp?

These are all very realistic questions: the second pseudoscience is seen as a valid treatment it can and will skew treatment options for people. Like if magic crystals were seen as just as valid, if not better than chemotherapy, it does not take much to realize that accessing chemo might be less straightforward.

Treating these medications as something to get off of is not going to help people access them. The entire mindset is flawed.

He didn’t say anything about legalizing drugs. He said getting people off illegal and legal drugs.

What happens when it’s the only treatment available? What happens when it’s kids diagnosed with ADHD? What happens when people are recommended it by their doctors, who they are supposed to trust? What happens when it’s been long enough that it becomes engrained in society as the acceptable treatment?

Regardless we should be able trust medicine and people should not have to navigate pseudoscience being pushed on them.

Yeah, but going to a camp to grow vegetables isn’t really based on science. Medicated treatment is at least with the goal of long-term being able to function in society, as opposed to being isolated in a camp and then plopped back into the real world with no coping mechanisms.