Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Not surprisingly, when it comes to ritalin and the drugging of children, it's all about the profit. The best way to market a drug is to first market a disorder, then pitch the drug as the only known treatment for that disorder.
The chemical abuse of children
In my opinion, what's happening today in psychiatric medicine is a crime against humanity and a form of chemical abuse towards children. Rather than pretending that these psychiatrists have any real medical authority, we should instead be locking them up and prosecuting them for these Nazi-style chemical assaults upon the population. |
| And thus, treatment with ritalin was the only way to return children to "normal" growth.
This kind of twisted, circular logic typifies modern psychiatric medicine, which spontaneously invokes the existence of numerous psychiatric "disorders" at the exact coincidental moment that profitable pharmaceuticals become available to treat them. The logic of psychiatry goes like this: ADHD is a real disease because it's in the DSIM-IV manual (the bible of fictitious psychiatric disorders). |
| Dangerous side effects from inhaling ritalin and Adderall include: respiratory problems, such as destruction of the nasal and sinus cavities and lung tissue irregular heartbeat (heart arrhythmia) problems with circulation psychotic episodes increased aggression toxic shock death, in extreme cases
As Adderall is similar in its chemical makeup to methamphetamine, it poses additional dangers. Extended, continuous abuse can result in developmental problems concerning the brain and negative changes in brain wave activity [emphasis added]. |
| Perhaps the "Ritalin generation" won't be able to have babies. This is just a guess, but the important point here is that the psychiatric industry is guessing, too. Nobody knows. Long-term testing has not been done. It's all basically a "let's give these drugs to children and see what happens" experiment. It's all quite typical of Big Pharma today, which treats members of the public as revenue-producing guinea pigs who are too stupid to wake up and realize they should be questioning the outrageous claims of treatment now being associated with harmful prescription medications. |
| Once one has become addicted to these substances, stopping could cause withdrawal symptoms similar to those with cocaine, such as: severe depression psychosis restlessness extreme feelings of agitation
You may think that you are safer and more frugal by snorting ritalin and Adderall, rather than cocaine, but you are harming yourself in similar ways. You also run the risk of arrest for having and using these substances without a prescription. |
| It might be a strategy very useful for grooming children for a career as a horse racing jockey, or growing a world-class gymnast (who are all rather short due to the physics advantage of having a shorter body and limbs), but for those parents actually looking to raise healthy children who express their full genetic potential, ritalin seems to fall short. (Ahem.)
For those parents looking to ruin the health of their children, on the other hand, dosing kids three times a day with amphetamines seems to be quite useful. But why stop there? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It reportedly featured interviews of parents who spoke fondly of their experience with ritalin, while the video spent only 20 seconds discussing Ritalin's negative side effects. Those Ritalin-happy parents, by the way, were all board members of Children with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Says one summary of the Merrow Report: ... CHADD (CH.A.D.D.) has been distributing misleading information to hundreds of thousands of parents and teachers that exaggerates the benefits of drug therapy, including ritalin. The result: a 500% increase in the number of children labeled and medicated since 1990. |
| As reported on the Merrow Report (PBS), the foundation Children with Attention Deficit Disorder accepted $818,000 from a drug company to help produce a video that promoted ritalin. This video was circulated widely in the U.S. public school system. It reportedly featured interviews of parents who spoke fondly of their experience with ritalin, while the video spent only 20 seconds discussing Ritalin's negative side effects. Those Ritalin-happy parents, by the way, were all board members of Children with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Says one summary of the Merrow Report: ... CHADD (CH.A.D.D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What medical symptoms does ritalin treat, then? What measurable physiological state is addressed with ritalin? There are none, of course. ritalin is an authority drug. It keeps children in line. It makes teachers feel less stress and parents feel less guilt. ritalin is a mind-altering narcotic, and yet millions of children are on it today. Its purpose is not to help children, but to make life more convenient for those who manage children.
You think statin drugs have a medical purpose? Think again. In reality, they only have a profit purpose. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It reportedly featured interviews of parents who spoke fondly of their experience with ritalin, while the video spent only 20 seconds discussing Ritalin's negative side effects. Those Ritalin-happy parents, by the way, were all board members of Children with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Says one summary of the Merrow Report: ... CHADD (CH.A.D.D.) has been distributing misleading information to hundreds of thousands of parents and teachers that exaggerates the benefits of drug therapy, including ritalin. The result: a 500% increase in the number of children labeled and medicated since 1990. |
Devra Davis
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 Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston and the University ofTexas Medical Branch at Galveston, studied the blood of a dozen children who were eight years old before and after they were placed on ritalin. They looked at three different measures of damage to chromosomes that can be tracked. Their results were so stunning that they halted the study and took the children off the drug.
On each measure, after just three months on the prescribed dose of ritalin, the children had between three and four times more genetic damage than they had when they started out. |
| Several papers have come out indicating that ritalin may pose extraordinary risks to our genetic makeup. One paper, from a team of researchers at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston and the University ofTexas Medical Branch at Galveston, studied the blood of a dozen children who were eight years old before and after they were placed on ritalin. They looked at three different measures of damage to chromosomes that can be tracked. Their results were so stunning that they halted the study and took the children off the drug. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 After World War II, Merck also began producing pesticides and food preservatives.
5. ritalin is "speed" for children. A chemical amphetamine, ritalin is made of controlled substances that would land you in prison if you sold them to a kid on the street, yet the drug is currently prescribed to millions of schoolchildren in the United States to treat a "brain chemistry condition" that was invented by the drug companies.
6. In the 1930's, drug companies marketed amphetamines as over-the-counter inhaler medicines for treating nasal congestion. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: This year at the annual sugar-and-food-additives fest for children called "Halloween," I think parents should skip the middle step of handing out candy and just hand out ritalin directly to the kids. I say this in jest, of course, since I am adamantly against the use of ritalin in children, but let's be crystal clear about one thing that's different from last year's Halloween: This year, we have scientific evidence that artificial colors cause hyperactivity in children.
The evidence I'm talking about is, of course, the study recently conducted in the U.K. |
Mark Sircus
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 After High School shootings
The medical and educational establishments are conducting a skyrocketing campaign to get kids and their parents to "just say yes" to brain-altering pharmaceuticals, with the drug of choice being ritalin, even though some report that ritalin is a drug that has a more potent effect on the brain than cocaine.30
By far, the overwhelming majority of psychotropic prescriptions for children are given for attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). |
Andreas Moritz
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 A staggering 4 million children a day line up at their school nurse's office for their daily afternoon doses of ritalin. Starting millions of small children on a prescription drug for attention deficit disorder without ever taking a moment to seek out the root cause of the problem being treated is a true form of "medical negligence." While taking ritalin or a similar medication will bear results practically overnight, it could take several weeks or months to figure out the root causes behind the behavior. |
Mark Sircus
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| After High School shootings
The medical and educational establishments are conducting a skyrocketing campaign to get kids and their parents to "just say yes" to brain-altering pharmaceuticals, with the drug of choice being ritalin, even though some report that ritalin is a drug that has a more potent effect on the brain than cocaine.30
By far, the overwhelming majority of psychotropic prescriptions for children are given for attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| What measurable physiological state is addressed with ritalin? There are none, of course. ritalin is an authority drug. It keeps children in line. It makes teachers feel less stress and parents feel less guilt. ritalin is a mind-altering narcotic, and yet millions of children are on it today. Its purpose is not to help children, but to make life more convenient for those who manage children.
You think statin drugs have a medical purpose? Think again. In reality, they only have a profit purpose. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Ritalin. The result: a 500% increase in the number of children labeled and medicated since 1990.
Sources: http://www.add-adhd.org/ritalin_CHADD_A.D.D.html http://ritalindeath.com/chadd.htm
Aside from the fact that so many health charities seem to operate in unethical, dishonest ways, we still have to contend with the basic fact that there's no such thing as a cure for a fictitious disease in the first place. What do these organizations mean by a cure? Do they think they can reverse a metabolic result with a magic synthetic chemical? |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 Ritalin, developed uncontrollable muscle movements 5 Carolyn took 40 times that amount each day. Carolyn will live with her dyskinesia the rest of her life. There is no cure. But this should never have occurred. Even in the 1970s when Carolyn was first prescribed ritalin several studies had already linked high doses of amphetamines to dyskinesias.6
There are two messages I hope you will reap from Carolyn's experience. First, there is too little awareness and concern about adverse drug effects among physicians. |
| But I was unaware that she had been on ritalin and had been on it for over 30 years to control her tendency to fall asleep in the middle of the day. I decided to call Carolyn, June's mother, and learn more.
". . . And are you still on it, Carolyn?"
"No, I got off it a little over a year ago because my liver had been damaged by taking it for so long."
"What was your daily dosage?"
"When I started, I took between 8 and 10 20-mg pills a day." [Note: ritalin comes in 5-mg, 10-mg and 20-mg tablets. The manufacturer states that taking more than 60 mg per day "is not recommended. |
Andreas Moritz
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| While taking ritalin or a similar medication will bear results practically overnight, it could take several weeks or months to figure out the root causes behind the behavior. In so many cases, it is sugar, insulin resistance, and poor nutrition that are causing the mental irritation, poor concentration and nervousness. Giving the child more loving attention is often enough to make him feel safe and secure and to help restore his emotional and physical balance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 At any rate, Gary Bell and I did a freedom of information request for all the deaths and injuries related to ritalin or methylphenidate, and for 1990-1997 there were 160 deaths from methylphenidate ritalin. There were another 26 deaths for 1998 to 2000, 186 deaths for the decade.
Mike: Again, these are only voluntary reports.
Dr. Baughman: These are voluntary reporting schemes to MedWatch, 1 percent of actual incidents the FDA says. That means there may have been 18,600 for that decade. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| Today many physicians freely prescribe ritalin or other stimulants without any awareness that 7.8% of children given them will develop tics, including those on low doses,7 or that a smaller number will develop other movement disorders.8 Second, I want you to recognize how little we know about long-term exposure to ritalin or to antidepressants. Carolyn is the only person I know with over 30 years of stimulant exposure. No one in our world today has had that many years of SSRI-antidepressant exposure because the drugs only came to market in 1987. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Children who simply can't sit still or who drift off in, class are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and given ritalin.
Older people who do not have high blood pressure are told they have a condition called prehypertension (a systolic blood pressure of 120 to 139, or a diastolic pressure of 80 to 89) that may warrant drug intervention. There is no evidence that giving medication to people who have this blood pressure reading will result in any alteration in the length or quality of life. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| The risks of medicines used to treat these diseases, such as ritalin, Prozac, and Zyprexa, should be weighed against the use of older, proven drugs. Impotence, male and female, is currently a "hot" area for pharmaceuticals. The new pills created to combat these "diseases" are so lucrative that risks for the patient are of only minimal importance.
Arthritis, chronic bowel syndrome, social anxiety disorder, baldness...the list of chronic diseases continues to grow, joining old-timers like diabetes, multiple sclerosis, allergies, Parkinson's disease, and asthma. |
Devra Davis
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| But each of them showed the same damage to their chromosomes after being on ritalin for just three months. Whether these risks occur in only a small subset of all children is not known at this point. It could be that there was something special about these children that suddenly caused a deficit in their bodies' ability to repair themselves.
If this finding of increased genetic damage were the only indication of a problem, it would be troubling enough. |
| On each measure, after just three months on the prescribed dose of ritalin, the children had between three and four times more genetic damage than they had when they started out. This damage was measured by examining the shape, size, and structure of their chromosomes. Coming from the two Greek words meaning color, chromo, and body, soma, a chromosome is a large building block of genes and proteins that determines our capacity to repair and survive various threats. Healthy cells are able to repair all sorts of injuries that occur just from being alive. |
| Other work that the Texas team has heard of but not been able to see has also apparently found evidence that ritalin has lingering effects.
The Texas group's senior investigator, Randa A. El-Zein, told me that shortly after their report appeared in Cancer Letters, the team got some unusual visitors.
A group of government experts from FDA, EPA and the National Center for Toxicology Research all flew down to talk about what they had found. They were told by the scientist leading the group, "The data are very interesting. We can't turn our eyes and say we don't have an effect. |
| One study of 28 children placed on ritalin tracked 8 of them for a few months and found no evidence of chromosomal damage.37 With 10 million prescriptions filled each year, you would expect a major effort to evaluate the long-term impact of this widely used drug. The FDA has announced no plans to require additional information. The federal grant El-Zein and her colleagues were encouraged to submit proposing an expanded study of more children was turned down.
By now you can probably persuade most people that cigarettes aren't worth the risk. But what about artificial sweeteners like Aspartame? |
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