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Another use for Ritalin
Support Care Cancer. 2003 Feb;11(2):126-8. Epub 2002 Dec 07. Related
Articles, Links Successful treatment of intractable hiccup with methylphenidate in a lung cancer patient. Marechal R, Berghmans T, Sculier P. Department of Internal Medicine, Institut Jules Bordet, Centre des tumeurs de l'Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. In a 56-year-old man with metastatic small-cell lung cancer, a persistent hiccup was refractory to classic treatments. Hyponatremia, neoplasic mediastinal involvement and liver metastases were though to be potential causative factors. Methylphenidate (MTP), a mild central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is most commonly used for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was started at a daily dose of 10 mg. It was rapidly efficient and well tolerated. This report suggests a potential advantage of MTP in the treatment of intractable hiccup in cancer patients. Publication Types: Case Reports PMID: 12560943 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
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Another use for Ritalin
"Marciosos7 Probertiosos7" wrote
causative factors. Methylphenidate (MTP), a mild central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is most commonly used for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was started at a daily dose of 10 mg. It was rapidly efficient and well tolerated. This report suggests a potential advantage of MTP in the treatment of intractable hiccup in cancer patients. Did the study say whether the patient was able to get off the drugs when he was given a chance? |
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Another use for Ritalin
"Marciosos7 Probertiosos7" wrote in message .net... Support Care Cancer. 2003 Feb;11(2):126-8. Epub 2002 Dec 07. Related Articles, Links Successful treatment of intractable hiccup with methylphenidate in a lung cancer patient. Marechal R, Berghmans T, Sculier P. Department of Internal Medicine, Institut Jules Bordet, Centre des tumeurs de l'Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. In a 56-year-old man with metastatic small-cell lung cancer, a persistent hiccup was refractory to classic treatments. Hyponatremia, neoplasic mediastinal involvement and liver metastases were though to be potential causative factors. Methylphenidate (MTP), a mild central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is most commonly used for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was started at a daily dose of 10 mg. It was rapidly efficient and well tolerated. This report suggests a potential advantage of MTP in the treatment of intractable hiccup in cancer patients. Publication Types: Case Reports PMID: 12560943 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Stand by for Jan to accuse you again of "pushing drugs." --Rich |
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Another use for Ritalin
"Roger Schlafly" wrote in message t... "Marciosos7 Probertiosos7" wrote causative factors. Methylphenidate (MTP), a mild central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is most commonly used for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was started at a daily dose of 10 mg. It was rapidly efficient and well tolerated. This report suggests a potential advantage of MTP in the treatment of intractable hiccup in cancer patients. Did the study say whether the patient was able to get off the drugs when he was given a chance? You have read the article and now can read the abstract. |
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Another use for Ritalin
"Rich Shewmaker" wrote in message ... "Marciosos7 Probertiosos7" wrote in message .net... Support Care Cancer. 2003 Feb;11(2):126-8. Epub 2002 Dec 07. Related Articles, Links Successful treatment of intractable hiccup with methylphenidate in a lung cancer patient. Marechal R, Berghmans T, Sculier P. Department of Internal Medicine, Institut Jules Bordet, Centre des tumeurs de l'Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. In a 56-year-old man with metastatic small-cell lung cancer, a persistent hiccup was refractory to classic treatments. Hyponatremia, neoplasic mediastinal involvement and liver metastases were though to be potential causative factors. Methylphenidate (MTP), a mild central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is most commonly used for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was started at a daily dose of 10 mg. It was rapidly efficient and well tolerated. This report suggests a potential advantage of MTP in the treatment of intractable hiccup in cancer patients. Publication Types: Case Reports PMID: 12560943 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Stand by for Jan to accuse you again of "pushing drugs." Question: Who is brighter in this area, atlASS, Jan or Roger? |
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Another use for Ritalin
"Marciosos7 Probertiosos7" wrote in message .net... "Rich Shewmaker" wrote in message ... "Marciosos7 Probertiosos7" wrote in message .net... Support Care Cancer. 2003 Feb;11(2):126-8. Epub 2002 Dec 07. Related Articles, Links Successful treatment of intractable hiccup with methylphenidate in a lung cancer patient. Marechal R, Berghmans T, Sculier P. Department of Internal Medicine, Institut Jules Bordet, Centre des tumeurs de l'Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. In a 56-year-old man with metastatic small-cell lung cancer, a persistent hiccup was refractory to classic treatments. Hyponatremia, neoplasic mediastinal involvement and liver metastases were though to be potential causative factors. Methylphenidate (MTP), a mild central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is most commonly used for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was started at a daily dose of 10 mg. It was rapidly efficient and well tolerated. This report suggests a potential advantage of MTP in the treatment of intractable hiccup in cancer patients. Publication Types: Case Reports PMID: 12560943 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Stand by for Jan to accuse you again of "pushing drugs." Question: Who is brighter in this area, atlASS, Jan or Roger? Here's my experience in incountering addictive drugs, in order of their impact on the emergency room: 1. Alcohol. Shows up both as acute intoxication as well as a precipitating factor in motor vehicle accidents and assaults. 2. Tobacco. Emphysema and COPD account for fewer ER visits than alcohol, but cigarettes are probably responsible for more preventable disease and death than booze. 3. (In Hawaii) Methamphetimine. Known locally as "Ice," this drug destroys lives at a horrific rate. ER visits are usually psychiatric in nature, but there are occasional acute cardiac events and sometimes deaths. 4. Heroin. Less addictive than tobacco or ice, but occasional overdoses and sometimes death occur. 5. Other narcotics. Pill abusers seldom show up in the ER except as "drug seekers." 6. Cannabis. I've seen two ER visits in 25 years from pakalolo. Both were anxiety attacks. 7. Everything else. When I was in New Jersey, Phencyclidine, known there by its street name "boat" caused many disruptive ER visits. "Crack" cocaine caused problems, including an occasional fatality from cardiac arrhythmia. I've seen a couple of ER cases from Quaalude, and one from LSD. So what's the point of all this? I'VE NEVER SEEN A RITALIN ADDICT SHOW UP IN THE ER! I'm not saying that no ritalin addiction occurs, but considering that it is not an uncommon drug, the fact that ritalin addiction does not present in the ER indicates that it is probably rare, or at least seldom acute or severe enough to precipitate major health problems. --Rich |
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Another use for Ritalin
He had metastatic lung cancer - doubtful if he had the chance.
Anth "Roger Schlafly" wrote in message t... "Marciosos7 Probertiosos7" wrote causative factors. Methylphenidate (MTP), a mild central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is most commonly used for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was started at a daily dose of 10 mg. It was rapidly efficient and well tolerated. This report suggests a potential advantage of MTP in the treatment of intractable hiccup in cancer patients. Did the study say whether the patient was able to get off the drugs when he was given a chance? |
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Another use for Ritalin
"Rich Shewmaker" wrote in message ... "Marciosos7 Probertiosos7" wrote in message .net... "Rich Shewmaker" wrote in message ... "Marciosos7 Probertiosos7" wrote in message .net... Support Care Cancer. 2003 Feb;11(2):126-8. Epub 2002 Dec 07. Related Articles, Links Successful treatment of intractable hiccup with methylphenidate in a lung cancer patient. Marechal R, Berghmans T, Sculier P. Department of Internal Medicine, Institut Jules Bordet, Centre des tumeurs de l'Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. In a 56-year-old man with metastatic small-cell lung cancer, a persistent hiccup was refractory to classic treatments. Hyponatremia, neoplasic mediastinal involvement and liver metastases were though to be potential causative factors. Methylphenidate (MTP), a mild central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is most commonly used for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was started at a daily dose of 10 mg. It was rapidly efficient and well tolerated. This report suggests a potential advantage of MTP in the treatment of intractable hiccup in cancer patients. Publication Types: Case Reports PMID: 12560943 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Stand by for Jan to accuse you again of "pushing drugs." Question: Who is brighter in this area, atlASS, Jan or Roger? Here's my experience in incountering addictive drugs, in order of their impact on the emergency room: 1. Alcohol. Shows up both as acute intoxication as well as a precipitating factor in motor vehicle accidents and assaults. 2. Tobacco. Emphysema and COPD account for fewer ER visits than alcohol, but cigarettes are probably responsible for more preventable disease and death than booze. 3. (In Hawaii) Methamphetimine. Known locally as "Ice," this drug destroys lives at a horrific rate. ER visits are usually psychiatric in nature, but there are occasional acute cardiac events and sometimes deaths. 4. Heroin. Less addictive than tobacco or ice, but occasional overdoses and sometimes death occur. 5. Other narcotics. Pill abusers seldom show up in the ER except as "drug seekers." 6. Cannabis. I've seen two ER visits in 25 years from pakalolo. Both were anxiety attacks. 7. Everything else. When I was in New Jersey, Phencyclidine, known there by its street name "boat" caused many disruptive ER visits. "Crack" cocaine caused problems, including an occasional fatality from cardiac arrhythmia. I've seen a couple of ER cases from Quaalude, and one from LSD. So what's the point of all this? I'VE NEVER SEEN A RITALIN ADDICT SHOW UP IN THE ER! I'm not saying that no ritalin addiction occurs, but considering that it is not an uncommon drug, the fact that ritalin addiction does not present in the ER indicates that it is probably rare, or at least seldom acute or severe enough to precipitate major health problems. Careful, Jan will accuse you of being a liar. |
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Another use for Ritalin
"nknisley" wrote in message ... Marciosos7 Probertiosos8 wrote: "Rich Shewmaker" wrote in message ... "Marciosos7 Probertiosos7" wrote in message . cv.net... "Rich Shewmaker" wrote in message ... "Marciosos7 Probertiosos7" wrote in message y.cv.net... Support Care Cancer. 2003 Feb;11(2):126-8. Epub 2002 Dec 07. Related Articles, Links Successful treatment of intractable hiccup with methylphenidate in a lung cancer patient. Marechal R, Berghmans T, Sculier P. Department of Internal Medicine, Institut Jules Bordet, Centre des tumeurs de l'Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. In a 56-year-old man with metastatic small-cell lung cancer, a persistent hiccup was refractory to classic treatments. Hyponatremia, neoplasic mediastinal involvement and liver metastases were though to be potential causative factors. Methylphenidate (MTP), a mild central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is most commonly used for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was started at a daily dose of 10 mg. It was rapidly efficient and well tolerated. This report suggests a potential advantage of MTP in the treatment of intractable hiccup in cancer patients. Publication Types: Case Reports PMID: 12560943 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Stand by for Jan to accuse you again of "pushing drugs." Question: Who is brighter in this area, atlASS, Jan or Roger? Here's my experience in incountering addictive drugs, in order of their impact on the emergency room: 1. Alcohol. Shows up both as acute intoxication as well as a precipitating factor in motor vehicle accidents and assaults. 2. Tobacco. Emphysema and COPD account for fewer ER visits than alcohol, but cigarettes are probably responsible for more preventable disease and death than booze. 3. (In Hawaii) Methamphetimine. Known locally as "Ice," this drug destroys lives at a horrific rate. ER visits are usually psychiatric in nature, but there are occasional acute cardiac events and sometimes deaths. 4. Heroin. Less addictive than tobacco or ice, but occasional overdoses and sometimes death occur. 5. Other narcotics. Pill abusers seldom show up in the ER except as "drug seekers." 6. Cannabis. I've seen two ER visits in 25 years from pakalolo. Both were anxiety attacks. 7. Everything else. When I was in New Jersey, Phencyclidine, known there by its street name "boat" caused many disruptive ER visits. "Crack" cocaine caused problems, including an occasional fatality from cardiac arrhythmia. I've seen a couple of ER cases from Quaalude, and one from LSD. So what's the point of all this? I'VE NEVER SEEN A RITALIN ADDICT SHOW UP IN THE ER! I'm not saying that no ritalin addiction occurs, but considering that it is not an uncommon drug, the fact that ritalin addiction does not present in the ER indicates that it is probably rare, or at least seldom acute or severe enough to precipitate major health problems. Careful, Jan will accuse you of being a liar. IIRC, a few months back, I had an exchange of posts with Jan on the subject of ER visits for methylphenidate abuse after she posted a claim that ER admissions for methylphenidate abuse was growing at an alarming rate. As I told Jan then, the US federal government tracks US "ED mentions" through DAWN (Drug Abuse Warning Network). http://dawninfo.samhsa.gov/ I gave Jan some of the info taken from the DAWN reports that indicated that methylphenidate abuse was declining, not growing, but she didn't seem to care that the DAWN figures contradicted her claim, ignoring them while she continued to claim that methylphenidate was extremely dangerous. Here's some of the info in DAWN's various reports WRT abuse of methylphenidate. - Methylphenidate results in well over a hundred thousand fewer ER visits than cocaine each year and--to add some perspective-- tens-of-thousands fewer emergency room visits resulting from abuse than the common over-the-counter medication acetaminophen (Tylenol and the like). The DAWN statistics for the number of emergency room mentions for methylphenidate (Ritalin), cocaine, and acetaminophen (Tylenol and similar medications) a 1997 Cocaine--161,087 Acetaminophen--35,448 Methylphenidate--2,474 1998 Cocaine--172,014 Acetaminophen--32,257 Methylphenidate--1,728 1999 Cocaine--168,763 Acetaminophen--28,258 Methylphenidate--1,478 2000 Cocaine--174,896 Acetaminophen--33,613 Methylphenidate--1,487 2001 Cocaine--193,034 Acetaminophen--30,888 Methylphenidate--1,279 DAWN reports that in 2002 the total number of US ED mentions for methylphenidate was 1,235, continuing the decline seen in previous years. Here's some other information from the DAWN reports: - Of the "Top 150 ED (Emergency Department) drug abuse episodes by frequency 2001", methylphenidate ranked 71st (.11%). - The Top 25 from DAWN's list of "Top 150 drug mentions for 2001" (plus, for comparison the rankings for aspirin, caffeine and methylphenidate) a 1. alcohol-in-combination 2. cocaine 3. cannabis 4. heroin 5. narcotic analgesics-NOS 6. acetaminophen (Tylenol and similar name brand and generic drugs) 7. benzodiazepines-NOS 8. alprazolam 9. drug unknown 10. clonazepam 11. acetaminophen-hydrocodone 12. amphetamine 13. ibuprofen 14. methamphetamine 15. lorazepam 16. diazepam 17. carisoprodol 18. oxycodone 19. methadone 20. trazodone 21. paroxetine 22. zolpidem 23. diphenhydramine 24. barbiturates-NOS 25. acetaminophen-oxycodone ... 28. aspirin ... 58. caffeine ... 71. methylphenidate DAWN also puts out a list of 15 "Major Substances of Abuse." It looks to me as if the list has remained unchanged from 1995-2002, and lists these drugs in order: 1. Alcohol-in-combination 2. Cocaine 3. Heroin 4. Marijuana 5. Amphetamines 6. Methamphetamine 7. MDMA (Ecstasy) 8. Ketamine 9. LSD 10. PCP 11. Miscellaneous hallucinogens 12. Flunitrazepam (Rohypnol) 13. GHB 14. Inhalants 15. Combinations NTA As you can see, methylphenidate is not listed. Jan is going to call you a liar. |
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