"Ilena Rose" <bia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Note from Health Lover, Ilena Rosenthal.
> http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
>
> The Ritalin Wars have been waged here on Usenet ... much by S****-oil
> Vigilantes ... let's see who pop up here to defend Ritalin.
> www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/S****-oil.htm
>
> Ritalin - The Hidden Effects...
>
> Article by Independent Investigative Re****ter Jon Rappa****t
>
> Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
>
> (Jon Rappo****t has worked as an independent investigative re****ter
> since 1982. He has published articles on medical issues and politics
> for LA Weekly, Spin, CBS Healthwatch, Stern, and many other newspapers
> in the US and Europe. His website is www.nomorefakenews.com. Mr.
> Rappo****t also writes extensively on the mind-body connection,
> alternative healing, and the extraordinary use of imagination to build
> futures in which oppressive power is decentralized.)
>
> In 1986, The International Journal of the Addictions published a very
> im****tant literature review by Richard Scarnati. It was called "An
> Outline of Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate)"
> [v.21(7), pp. 837-841].
>
> Scarnati listed a large number of adverse affects of Ritalin and cited
> published journal articles which re****ted each of these symptoms.
>
> For every one of the following Ritalin effects, there is at least one
> confirming source in the medical literature:
>
> . Paranoid delusions
> · Paranoid psychosis
> · Hypomanic and manic symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
> · Activation of psychotic symptoms
> · Toxic psychosis
> · Visual hallucinations
> · Auditory hallucinations
> · Can surpass LSD in producing bizarre experiences
> · Effects pathological thought processes
> · Extreme withdrawal
> · Terrified affect
> · Started screaming
> · Aggressiveness
> · Insomnia
> · Since Ritalin is considered an amphetamine-type drug, expect
> amphetamine-like effects
> · Psychic dependence
> · High-abuse potential DEA Schedule II Drug
> · Decreased REM sleep
> · When used with antidepressants one may see dangerous reactions
> including hypertension, seizures and hypothermia
> · Convulsions
> · Brain damage may be seen with amphetamine abuse.
>
> Many parents around the country have discovered that Ritalin has
> become a condition for their children continuing in school. There are
> even re****ts, by parents, of threats from social agencies: "If you
> don't allow us to prescribe Ritalin for your ADHD child, we may decide
> that you are an unfit parent. We may decide to take your child away."
>
> This mind-boggling state of affairs is fueled by teachers, principals,
> and school counselors, none of whom have medical training. Yet even if
> they did.
>
> The very existence of the "illnesses" for which Ritalin would be
> prescribed is unproven. It is merely assumed.
>
> In commenting on Dr. Lawrence Diller's book, Running on Ritalin, Dr.
> William Carey, Director of Behavioral Pediatrics, Children's Hospital
> of Philadelphia, has written, "Dr. Diller has correctly described...
> the disturbing trend of blaming children's social, behavioral, and
> academic performance problems entirely on an unproven brain
> deficit..."
>
> On November 16-18, 1998, the National Institute of Mental Health held
> the prestigious "NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and
> Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD]." The
> conference was explicitly aimed at ending all debate about the
> diagnoses of ADD, ADHD, and about the prescription of Ritalin. It was
> hoped that at the highest levels of medical research and bureaucracy,
> a clear position would be taken: this is what ADHD is, this is where
> it comes from, and these are the drugs it should be treated with. That
> didn't happen, amazingly. Instead, the official panel responsible for
> drawing conclusions from the conference threw cold water on the whole
> attempt to reach a comfortable consensus.
>
> Panel member Mark Vonnegut, a Massachusetts pediatrician, said, "The
> diagnosis [of ADHD] is a mess."
>
> The quite conventional and orthodox panel essentially said it was not
> sure ADHD was even a valid diagnosis. In other words, it virtually
> admitted that ADD and ADHD might be nothing more than attempts to
> categorize certain children's behaviors---with no organic cause, no
> clear-cut biological basis, no provable reason for even using the ADD
> or ADHD labels.
>
> The panel found "no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain
> malfunction [which malfunction had been the whole psychiatric
> assumption]."
>
> The panel found that Ritalin has not been shown to have long-term
> benefits. In fact, the panel stated that Ritalin has resulted in
> "little improvement on academic achievement or social skills."
>
> Panel chairman, David Kupfer, professor of psychiatry at the
> University of Pittsburgh, said, "There is no current validated
> diagnostic test [for ADHD]."
>
> Yet at every level of public education in America, there remains what
> can only be called a voracious desire to give children Ritalin (or
> other similar drugs) for so-called ADD or ADHD.
>
> The 1994 Textbook of Psychiatry, published by the American Psychiatric
> Press, contains this review (Popper and Steingard): "Stimulants [such
> as Ritalin] do not produce lasting improvements in aggressivity,
> conduct disorder, criminality, education achievement, job functioning,
> marital relation****ps, or long-term adjustment."
>
> Parents should also wake up to the fact that, in the aftermath of the
> Littleton, Colorado, school-shooting tragedy, pundits and doctors
> began urging much more extensive "mental health" services for
> children. Whether you have noticed it or not, this no longer means,
> for the most part, therapy with a caring professional. It means drugs.
> Drugs like Ritalin.
>
> In December 1996, the US Drug Enforcement Agency held a conference on
> ADHD and Ritalin. Surprisingly, it issued a sensible statement about
> drugs being a bad substitute for the presence of caring parents:
> "[T]he use of stimulants [such as Ritalin] for the short-term
> improvement of behavior and underachievement may be thwarting efforts
> to address the children's real issues, both on an individual and
> societal level. The lack of long-term positive results with the use of
> stimulants and the specter of previous and potential stimulant abuse
> epidemics, give cause to worry about the future. The dramatic increase
> in the use of methylphenidate [Ritalin] in the 1990s should be viewed
> as a marker or warning to society about the problems children are
> having and how we view and address them."
>
> In his book, Talking Back to Ritalin, Dr. Peter Breggin expands on the
> drug's effects: "Stimulants such as Ritalin and amphetamine... have
> grossly harmful impacts on the brain -- reducing overall blood flow,
> disturbing glucose metabolism, and possibly causing permanent
> shrinkage or atrophy of the brain."
>
> In the American press, although many articles have appeared covering
> "the debate" about Ritalin and ADHD, no newspaper or TV network has
> taken it upon itself to hammer on all the lies, day after day, month
> after month. That kind of campaign could turn around the whole nation
> on this vital subject---but of course, pharmaceutical advertising is a
> more powerful force.
>
> And one should not forget that Ritalin came out of a Swiss drug giant
> called Ciba Geigy (now Novartis) fifty years ago. That company once
> had very close business ties with the infamous Nazi cartel, IG Farben.
> Farben stood for inhuman experiments on human beings. Read the adverse
> effects of Ritalin again, and consider that millions of children take
> those pills every day.
>
> JON RAPPO****T - http://www.nomorefakenews.com
http://www.medscape.com/druginfo/dosage?drugid=63748&drugname=Ritalin+LA+Oral&monotype=default
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