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Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs- Study
Vashti wrote:
It wasn't a dark and stormy night when Raving Loonie wrote: Vashti wrote: It wasn't a dark and stormy night when wrote: MILLIONS have misused. IT IS STILL HAPPENING. Millions have misused aspirin and "IT IS STILL HAPPENING", what should be done? millions? ... I thought it was 'Billions' ??? Welll- billions are an amount of millions, surely?g Just think of the multitudes abusing caffeine and alcohol... why we ought to ban stuff like that! Ooh, and *chocolate*!!! If chocolate ever got banned I'd have to consider moving off-world though! .... it's almost, as if ... ... being alive was terminally fatal, condition. Absolutely, deadly. Perhaps, a person shouldn't risk it? RL |
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Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs- Study
Mark Probert wrote:
wrote: Poor Mark. "Houston, we have got a problem because we are just in the middle of this epidemic." "Mark Probert" wrote in message ... wrote: "Mark Probert" wrote in message ... wrote: wrote snip wrote: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi...&date=20060224 Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs, study says WASHINGTON - More than 7 million Americans are estimated to have misused Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Jan, do you get the point, now? "Houston, we have got a problem because we are just in the middle of this epidemic." OOPS! Jan Is not the subject. "Houston, we have got a problem because we are just in the middle of this epidemic." MILLIONS have misused. Which has nothing to do with the millions who follow the rules and use medications according to instructions. You just seem to be obsessed with posting about misuse, when people in these groups are not mis-users. Obviously, you are trying to tell these people that they are part of the evil of misuse and it is their fault. If I am wrong, please explain IN YOUR OWN WORDS, why you appear to post every mis-use article you find. Errrh, does that also extend to the misuse of naturopathic methodologies? ( ... if THAT were the case then, at least, it would be unbiased "misusage". ... as in, being biased, in an indiscriminate manner.) RL ... or is that "being descriminating" in an unbiased manner? Sorry. These things always confuse me. .... RL ( ... again ) |
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Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs- Study
Raving Loonie wrote:
Mark Probert wrote: wrote: Poor Mark. "Houston, we have got a problem because we are just in the middle of this epidemic." "Mark Probert" wrote in message ... wrote: "Mark Probert" wrote in message ... wrote: wrote snip wrote: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi...&date=20060224 Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs, study says WASHINGTON - More than 7 million Americans are estimated to have misused Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Jan, do you get the point, now? "Houston, we have got a problem because we are just in the middle of this epidemic." OOPS! Jan Is not the subject. "Houston, we have got a problem because we are just in the middle of this epidemic." MILLIONS have misused. Which has nothing to do with the millions who follow the rules and use medications according to instructions. You just seem to be obsessed with posting about misuse, when people in these groups are not mis-users. Obviously, you are trying to tell these people that they are part of the evil of misuse and it is their fault. If I am wrong, please explain IN YOUR OWN WORDS, why you appear to post every mis-use article you find. Errrh, does that also extend to the misuse of naturopathic methodologies? ( ... if THAT were the case then, at least, it would be unbiased "misusage". ... as in, being biased, in an indiscriminate manner.) No, AFAIK, Jan has never complained about people who abuse dihydrogen monoxide. When I pointed that out to her, she said I was diverting, which is an evil thing when I do it, but acceptable when she does it. RL ... or is that "being descriminating" in an unbiased manner? Sorry. These things always confuse me. ... RL ( ... again ) |
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Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs- Study
Brad_Chad wrote:
If conventional medicine really cared about people, they would let people try to get rid of their ADHD by finding their Hidden Food Allergies (Sensitivities), and removing them from their diet. This is the safe way that alternative doctors help many people with ADHD. It doesn't work on everybody, but it is guaranteed safe, and it has other health benefits as well. Never taking a drug means never having to say, "I'm sorry this drug caused the heart problem." Conventional medicine doesn't have time for any treatment that doesn't involve drugs, because drugs are where the money is. Talk to a naturopathic doctor (www.naturopathic.org) or an alternative doctor (www.acam.org). How very true. I couldn't agree more wholeheartedly! Indeed ... there is very good money to be made by selling nutritional suppliments. the Raving Loonie |
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Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs- Study
"Raving Loonie" wrote in message ups.com... Vashti wrote: It wasn't a dark and stormy night when Raving Loonie wrote: Vashti wrote: It wasn't a dark and stormy night when wrote: MILLIONS have misused. IT IS STILL HAPPENING. Millions have misused aspirin and "IT IS STILL HAPPENING", what should be done? millions? ... I thought it was 'Billions' ??? Welll- billions are an amount of millions, surely?g Just think of the multitudes abusing caffeine and alcohol... why we ought to ban stuff like that! Ooh, and *chocolate*!!! If chocolate ever got banned I'd have to consider moving off-world though! ... it's almost, as if ... ... being alive was terminally fatal, condition. Absolutely, deadly. Perhaps, a person shouldn't risk it? I've heard it expressed, "Life is a sexually transmitted terminal condition." ;o) Rich |
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Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs- Study
"Vashti" wrote in message ... It wasn't a dark and stormy night when wrote: MILLIONS have misused. IT IS STILL HAPPENING. What you *selectively* snipped. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi...document_id=20... Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs, study says By Shankar Vedantam The Washington Post WASHINGTON - More than 7 million Americans are estimated to have misused stimulant drugs meant to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and substantial numbers of teen-agers and young adults appear to show signs of addiction, according to a comprehensive national analysis tracking such abuse. The statistics are striking because many young people recreationally using these drugs are seeking to boost academic and professional performance, doctors say. Although the drugs may allow people to stay awake longer and finish work faster, scientists who published a new study concluded that about 1.6 million teen-agers and young adults had misused these stimulants during a 12-month period and that 75,000 showed signs of addiction. The study published online this month in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence culled data from a 2002 national survey of about 67,000 households. The data paint a concrete and sobering picture of what many experts have worried about for years, and present ethical and medical challenges for a country where mental performance is highly valued and where the number of prescriptions for these drugs has doubled every five years, said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "We live in a highly competitive society, and you want to get the top grades and you know your colleagues are taking stimulants and you feel pressured," she said. "Yes, you are going to study better in the middle of the night if you take one of these medications. The problem is a certain percentage of people become addicted to them, and some have toxic effects." Volkow said it was impossible to disentangle the skyrocketing prescriptions of drugs for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder from the risks of diversion and abuse. "As a child, you have multiple friends who are being treated with stimulant medications," she said. "You get the sense that these are good." Studies have shown that the drugs are highly effective, especially among children, and also that they reduce the risk of substance abuse among those correctly diagnosed with the psychiatric disorder, which is characterized by inattention and unruly behavior. Untreated ADHD has also been associated with conduct and academic problems. At the same time, there have been growing concerns that the drugs are over-prescribed. A Food and Drug Administration panel earlier this month warned that the medications carried risks of rare, but serious, cardiovascular problems, and it recommended that the agency place serious "black box" warnings on the drugs, as a way to restrain spiraling prescriptions. Lawrence Diller, a pediatrician in Walnut Creek, Calif., who prescribes the drugs but is worried about their overuse, said that the new study showed the real health concerns are with diversion and abuse, not with rare side effects. "Seventy-five thousand addicts to prescription stimulants is much more troublesome than the 100 to 200 adults who have strokes," he said. "Houston, we have got a problem because we are just in the middle of this epidemic." The study found that men and women were equally likely to be misusing the drugs, but that women seemed to be at greater risk of dependence - characterized by a lack of control, physical need and growing tolerance for the drug - while men seemed to be at greater risk of abuse, in which the medication was used in dangerous situations, said lead author Larry Kroutil, who studies health behavior and education at RTI International, a nonprofit research group. To obtain their findings, Kroutil and a team of researchers culled data from a 2002 national survey conducted by the federal government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). H. Westley Clark, director of SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, said the 2002 data were obtained through face-to-face interviews. RTI has not yet culled data from subsequent years regarding the misuse of ADHD drugs. Since then, prescription rates and the popularity of various drugs have changed, and Kroutil said continuing research is needed to track the phenomenon. Clark noted that data from 2003 suggested that the problem of stimulant misuse was greater among young adults 18 to 25 years old than among teen-agers. The RTI study was paid for by Eli Lilly and Co., which makes the non-stimulant ADHD drug Strattera. Although non-stimulant treatments such as Strattera were an option for ADHD patients, they were often not as potent as stimulant drugs, Volkow said. Both Volkow and Scott Kollins, who heads Duke University's ADHD program, said the full range of ADHD drugs is a valuable tool. But Kollins said the study brought home what he has seen anecdotally: A colleague who visited his college-age son's fraternity was mobbed by requests for Adderall prescriptions by youngsters seeking to boost academic performance. "If I took Ritalin, I would probably stay up longer and write my grants faster," Kollins said. But besides the fact that he did not think this is right, Kollins said the rare side effects highlighted by the FDA panel meant people using the drugs for nonmedical purposes were placing themselves at risk for those adverse events. Volkow was more blunt: "You are playing roulette," she said. "If you get addicted, you will not only not get into Harvard, you will not finish high school." Millions have misused aspirin and "IT IS STILL HAPPENING", what should be done? Vashti Your diversion is noted. |
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Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs- Study
"Mark Probert" wrote in message ... wrote: Poor Mark. "Houston, we have got a problem because we are just in the middle of this epidemic." "Mark Probert" wrote in message ... wrote: "Mark Probert" wrote in message ... wrote: wrote snip wrote: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi...&date=20060224 Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs, study says WASHINGTON - More than 7 million Americans are estimated to have misused Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Misused. Jan, do you get the point, now? "Houston, we have got a problem because we are just in the middle of this epidemic." OOPS! Jan Is not the subject. "Houston, we have got a problem because we are just in the middle of this epidemic." MILLIONS have misused. Which has nothing to do with the millions who follow the rules and use medications according to instructions. Nothing said it did. You just seem to be obsessed with posting about misuse, when people in these groups are not mis-users. Obviously, you are trying to tell these people that they are part of the evil of misuse and it is their fault. Do look at the groups, this is posted to. It is obvious, YOU are turning this post into another *attack*. If I am wrong, please explain IN YOUR OWN WORDS, why you appear to post every mis-use article you find. Fact is I don't. I post many articles. Further FACT, I don't have to explain *anything* I do to you, Mark. IT IS STILL HAPPENING. "Houston, we have got a problem because we are just in the middle of this epidemic." |
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"Vashti" wrote in message WASHINGTON - More than 7 million Americans are estimated to have misused stimulant drugs meant to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, ... Quick & dirty, reality check, here ... AD(H)D prevelance ~~~ 5% U.S. pop 200 million 10 million people with AD(H)D is the U.S. ... Right? 7 million misused stimulant drugs? Whew! ... you had me worried there for a minute. Translation: At least 3 million Americans with ADD are popping pills correctly, at all times during their life, to date. Not bad, actually .... As for the other 7 million poor sots who suffer from ADD but mess-up the usage of their medicine? Altogether, now .... First we take 1 (one) white pill out of the bottle and ... ... Of course, ensuring that we *don't* use any foreign supply wherein there is no *quality control* ... Etc ... Cordially, RL RL |
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Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs- Study
It wasn't a dark and stormy night when wrote:
"Vashti" wrote in message ... It wasn't a dark and stormy night when wrote: MILLIONS have misused. IT IS STILL HAPPENING. What you *selectively* snipped. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi...document_id=20... Millions have misused ADHD stimulant drugs, study says [snipped again for focus] Millions have misused aspirin and "IT IS STILL HAPPENING", what should be done? Vashti Your diversion is noted. Repasting content snipped and calling my point a diversion is an odd way to have a discussion. Can you not answer my question? Is that why you seem to be attempting to divert attention from it? Vashti |
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