Info for Parents of Children who are being Pressured to Diagnose and Drug their child for ADHD, Story behind our Sons Death Caused from ADHD Drug, Ritalin.
I am going to break this down into three parts, 1st the history and purpose of this website, 2nd death from Ritalin and 3rd the truth behind ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
April 15, 2001 I created this website in hopes of providing parents and guardians with information about the truth behind ADHD and the drugs used to treat children diagnosed with ADHD.
The cause was determined to be from the long-term (age 7-14) use of Methylphenidate, a medication commonly known as Ritalin.
The medical examiner said this type of heart damage is not easy to detect with the standard test necessary for prescription refills.
The standard test performed consists of blood work, listening to the heart, questions about school behaviors, sleeping and eating habits.
Matthew supposedly needed this drug Ritalin because of a subjective diagnosis called ADHD until it silenced him forever on March 21, 2000, even sadder I have learned that thousands of children have died as a direct result of using psychotropic medications over the years.
And I give Peter R. Breggin, M.D. and his wife Ginger all the credit for teaching me about the dangers of giving psychotropic drugs to children.
Until recently, no studies have systematically examined the rate of psychotic symptoms caused by routine treatment with stimulant drugs such as methylphenidate (Ritalin) and amphetamine (Dexedrine, Adderall).
Doctors who prescribe stimulant drugs often seem oblivious to the fact that they can cause psychoses, including manic-like and schizophrenic-like disorders.
Recently on television I debated a well-known expert in child psychiatry who took the position that prescribed stimulants "never" cause psychoses in children.