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Ritalin is NOT Addictive when taken as prescribed
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:51:52 GMT, Eric Wilk
wrote: You make a really good point. How do you quantify, then, if something is addictive at really low levels? The same way it's done at higher levels. There are animal models to look at drug use behavior that map very well onto human behavior. Simply run the experiments using therapeutic levels (which for a rat is going to be a much smaller dose than a human) and see if they exhibit addictive behaviors. ================================================== == I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else. Lance Armstrong Cyclist and cancer survivor http://home.gwi.net/~mdmpsyd/index.htm |
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Ritalin is NOT Addictive when taken as prescribed
"Eric Wilk" wrote in message ... You make a really good point. How do you quantify, then, if something is addictive at really low levels? Addiction is far better defined based on cravings that excede, or are seperate from, the therapeutic effect of the drug. Identifyable behaviors include rapidly increasing dosage requirements (whereas with therapeutic use of most controlled substances the doses will rise slowly, if at all - in Ritalin there is evidence that it does not rise except to account for changes in body size) and self destructive behaviors - i.e continuing use it despite demonstrable harm. Dose really has little, if anything, to do with it. -- CBI, MD |
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