Research Shows Side Effects of Ritalin Include Long-Term Brain Injury

[stjames1_53]

Research Shows Side Effects of Ritalin Include Long-Term Brain Injury
By John Lavitt 04/14/14

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Lead researcher, Prof. Joan Baizer of the University of Buffalo explained how "clinicians consider Ritalin to be short-acting. When the active dose has worked its way through the system, they consider it all gone." What proved problematic to Baizer was that the research conducted "suggests that [Ritalin] has the potential for causing long-lasting changes in brain cell structure and function."
Another study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse revealed that Ritalin causes physical changes in neurons in reward regions of mouse brains and these effects were similar to the long-term side effects of cocaine. When placed together, the three studies implied that the long-term side effects of Ritalin include both the onset of clinical depression and potential brain injury to the frontal lobes.
As reported in The New York Times, three million children in this country take drugs for ADHD. In the past 30 years, there has been a 2,000 percent increase in the consumption of drugs for attention-deficit disorder. Among many children, the abuse of Ritalin has become commonplace. When their peers are prescribed these drugs, peer pressure leads to abuse.
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https://www.thefix.com/content/resea...m-brain-injury

It is the white elephant in the room. How many of these young shooters were given Ritalin in an attempt to control their emotional problems in school? Many of these kids have been on it for years, and once they get out of school, the supply is cut off.

[Lummy]

John Shick, who shot up a clinic in Pittsburgh several years ago, killing one and wounding several, had a list of 43 prescribed medications he was on or had been taking before his shooting episode.

https://www.cchrint.org/2012/03/13/j...s-seek-motive/
https://www.cchrint.org/2012/03/14/l...to-pain-pills/

And check this out: He visited a pharmacy earlier in the day of his rampage but forgot to pick up his medication. And the story still stands that he missed his meds that day. https://www.wtae.com/article/pharmac...ooting/7455800

I don't think any physicians were ever prosecuted for their role/s in this.

[stjames1_53]

Big pharma is making a killing off of these "control" drugs.............especially Ritalin because it is prescribed to children as young as 8 years old and kept on them until they are 18 or so.
I'd be willing to bet they used our children to experiment as a short cut to producing the drug itself instead of studying the long term affects real close.

[Cotton1]

John Shick, who shot up a clinic in Pittsburgh several years ago, killing one and wounding several, had a list of 43 prescribed medications he was on or had been taking before his shooting episode.

https://www.cchrint.org/2012/03/13/j...s-seek-motive/
https://www.cchrint.org/2012/03/14/l...to-pain-pills/

And check this out: He visited a pharmacy earlier in the day of his rampage but forgot to pick up his medication. And the story still stands that he missed his meds that day. https://www.wtae.com/article/pharmac...ooting/7455800

I don't think any physicians were ever prosecuted for their role/s in this.

Welcome back, Lummy. Sorry I went berserk because I felt you mentioned cats in a manner that I felt Catfucious would be ap-pawed by....

[donttread]

Research Shows Side Effects of Ritalin Include Long-Term Brain Injury
By John Lavitt 04/14/14

~snip~
Lead researcher, Prof. Joan Baizer of the University of Buffalo explained how "clinicians consider Ritalin to be short-acting. When the active dose has worked its way through the system, they consider it all gone." What proved problematic to Baizer was that the research conducted "suggests that [Ritalin] has the potential for causing long-lasting changes in brain cell structure and function."
Another study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse revealed that Ritalin causes physical changes in neurons in reward regions of mouse brains and these effects were similar to the long-term side effects of cocaine. When placed together, the three studies implied that the long-term side effects of Ritalin include both the onset of clinical depression and potential brain injury to the frontal lobes.
As reported in The New York Times, three million children in this country take drugs for ADHD. In the past 30 years, there has been a 2,000 percent increase in the consumption of drugs for attention-deficit disorder. Among many children, the abuse of Ritalin has become commonplace. When their peers are prescribed these drugs, peer pressure leads to abuse.
~snip

https://www.thefix.com/content/resea...m-brain-injury

It is the white elephant in the room. How many of these young shooters were given Ritalin in an attempt to control their emotional problems in school? Many of these kids have been on it for years, and once they get out of school, the supply is cut off.

ADD is real, I have seen it. However, I also believe that it is over diagnosed in the very young and that drugs have become too much of a knee jerk reaction. Some of these kids are just being kids, some have other issues, some could use non drug remedies and lifestyle changes and some would need the meds.

[stjames1_53]

ADD is real, I have seen it. However, I also believe that it is over diagnosed in the very young and that drugs have become too much of a knee jerk reaction. Some of these kids are just being kids, some have other issues, some could use non drug remedies and lifestyle changes and some would need the meds.

As I indicated, the long term affects have yet to be studied, more indepth