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BOLEN REPORT: Ritalin - The Hidden Effects... Jon Rappaport
(This will surely bring out the Disbarred Quack / Ritalin Pushers
attacking this important work) Ritalin - The Hidden Effects... Article by Independent Investigative Reporter Jon Rappaport Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 (Jon Rappoport has worked as an independent investigative reporter 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. Rappoport 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 important 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 reported each of these symptoms. For every one of the following Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literatu .. 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 reports, 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 relationships, 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 RAPPOPORT - http://www.nomorefakenews.com -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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BOLEN REPORT: Ritalin - The Hidden Effects... Jon Rappaport
Ilena Rose wrote in message ... (This will surely bring out the Disbarred Quack / Ritalin Pushers attacking this important work) For every one of the following Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literatu . 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. Oops, he left out Anorexia Nervosa. ;o) Rich |
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BOLEN REPORT: Ritalin - The Hidden Effects...... Jon Rappaport
Ritalin - The Hidden Effects... Article by Independent Investigative Reporter Jon Rappaport Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 (Jon Rappoport has worked as an independent investigative reporter 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. Rappoport 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 important 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 reported each of these symptoms. For every one of the following Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literatu .. 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 reports, 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 relationships, 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 RAPPOPORT - http://www.nomorefakenews.com |
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BOLEN REPORT: Ritalin - The Hidden Effects...... Jon Rappaport
"BreastImplantAwareness.org" wrote in message ... Ritalin - The Hidden Effects... Article by Independent Investigative Reporter Jon Rappaport Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 (Jon Rappoport has worked as an independent investigative reporter 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. Rappoport 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 important 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 reported each of these symptoms. For every one of the following Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literatu . 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 reports, 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 relationships, 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 RAPPOPORT - http://www.nomorefakenews.com John Rappaport is a good writer on good topics. So is tim bolen. Carole http://www.cellsalts.net |
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BOLEN REPORT: Ritalin - The Hidden Effects...... Jon Rappaport
Carole wrote: "BreastImplantAwareness.org" wrote in message ... Ritalin - The Hidden Effects... Article by Independent Investigative Reporter Jon Rappaport Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 (Jon Rappoport has worked as an independent investigative reporter 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. Rappoport 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 important 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 reported each of these symptoms. For every one of the following Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literatu . 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 reports, 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 relationships, 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 RAPPOPORT - http://www.nomorefakenews.com John Rappaport is a good writer on good topics. So is tim bolen. Hm. Carole also thinks that David "the world is being run by giant shape-shifting lizards" Icke is a worthy source. And I'm sure Bolen and Rappenport are just as reliable Carole http://www.cellsalts.net |
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BOLEN REPORT: Ritalin - The Hidden Effects...... Jon Rappaport
Carole wrote:
John Rappaport is a good writer on good topics. So is tim bolen. Dear Carole: I regret to inform you that the position of Literary Critic that you applied for has been filled by a Chimpanzee, who used copies of Bolen and Rappaport's writings to line the bottom of its cage. Please feel free to re-apply in the future, around 2106. With a century of practice behind you, you may get it right. Very truly yours |
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BOLEN REPORT: Ritalin - The Hidden Effects...... Jon Rappaport
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Carole wrote: John Rappaport is a good writer on good topics. So is tim bolen. Bolen is a paid propagandist -- but I guess that's OK with you as long as you happen to agree with the people paying him this week. -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "If you can't say something nice, then sit next to me." -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
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BOLEN REPORT: Ritalin - The Hidden Effects...... Jon Rappaport
"cathyb" wrote in message oups.com... Carole wrote: "BreastImplantAwareness.org" wrote in message ... Ritalin - The Hidden Effects... Article by Independent Investigative Reporter Jon Rappaport Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 (Jon Rappoport has worked as an independent investigative reporter 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. Rappoport 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 important 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 reported each of these symptoms. For every one of the following Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literatu . 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 reports, 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 relationships, 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 RAPPOPORT - http://www.nomorefakenews.com John Rappaport is a good writer on good topics. So is tim bolen. Hm. Carole also thinks that David "the world is being run by giant shape-shifting lizards" Icke is a worthy source. And I'm sure Bolen and Rappenport are just as reliable Now I didn't say that Cathy, all I said was that it was possible. And there are various degrees of possible from highly likely to highly unlikely. And until you can prove that there aren't shape shifting reptiles involved somewhere in the grand scheme of things, you are in no position to ridicule. Remember, truth is often stranger than fiction. Carole http://www.cellsalts.net |
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BOLEN REPORT: Ritalin - The Hidden Effects...... Jon Rappaport
Carole wrote: "cathyb" wrote in message oups.com... Carole wrote: "BreastImplantAwareness.org" wrote in message ... Ritalin - The Hidden Effects... Article by Independent Investigative Reporter Jon Rappaport Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 (Jon Rappoport has worked as an independent investigative reporter 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. Rappoport 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 important 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 reported each of these symptoms. For every one of the following Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literatu . 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 reports, 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 relationships, 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 RAPPOPORT - http://www.nomorefakenews.com John Rappaport is a good writer on good topics. So is tim bolen. Hm. Carole also thinks that David "the world is being run by giant shape-shifting lizards" Icke is a worthy source. And I'm sure Bolen and Rappenport are just as reliable Now I didn't say that Cathy, all I said was that it was possible. Carole, please learn to read. You certainly have said that David Icke is a worthy source. The fact that you also said that his shape-shifting lizard overlords were possible but unlikely is another issue. Yet again, one that does not redound to your credit. And there are various degrees of possible from highly likely to highly unlikely. And until you can prove that there aren't shape shifting reptiles involved somewhere in the grand scheme of things, you are in no position to ridicule. Remember, truth is often stranger than fiction. Not so when the fiction in question is our being slaves to giant shape-shifting lizards, Carole. Carole http://www.cellsalts.net |
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BOLEN REPORT: Ritalin - The Hidden Effects...... Jon Rappaport
"Carole" wrote in message ... "cathyb" wrote in message oups.com... Hm. Carole also thinks that David "the world is being run by giant shape-shifting lizards" Icke is a worthy source. And I'm sure Bolen and Rappenport are just as reliable Now I didn't say that Cathy, all I said was that it was possible. And there are various degrees of possible from highly likely to highly unlikely. And until you can prove that there aren't shape shifting reptiles involved somewhere in the grand scheme of things, you are in no position to ridicule. Remember, truth is often stranger than fiction. Hmm. Has Jan learned how to shape-shift? -- --Rich Recommended websites: http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles http://www.acahf.org.au http://www.quackwatch.org/ http://www.skeptic.com/ http://www.csicop.org/ |
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