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Anonymous:
Deborah, that study was discredited because at the time of the research, they didn't control for symptom severity-- so what happened is, the people with more severe problems (and thus initial higher risk for substance abuse because ADD increases that risk) were given the drugs and those with less risk were not.

The more recent studies cntrolled for those confounding effects (and were published in much better journals, probably not surprisingly).

Anonymous:
There's also no evidence to support the idea that "these drugs destroy the cardiovascular system."

The problem is, we've gotten in such the habit of demonizing drugs that we've begun to believe our own  myths.

Correlation is not causation-- just because someone dies and has Ritalin in his or her system, doesn't mean that the death was caused by it.

Ritalin is generic-- there's no reason for drug companies to promote it, also.

Deborah:
The Berkeley Press Release
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/rele ... -1999.html

Lambert's research is based on an ongoing 26-year study of 492 San Francisco Bay area children, half of whom suffered from some degree of ADHD. The remaining children did not have ADHD.

In her 26-year study, Lambert found that the more severe the ADHD, the more likely youngsters would become regular smokers. Ritalin apparently increased the likelihood of cigarette smoking and cocaine abuse.

For instance, by age 17, half the teenagers with severe ADHD smoked regularly, compared to only 30 percent of those suffering milder symptoms. And while nearly half of the youngsters treated with Ritalin had become regular smokers by age 17, only 30 percent of those who had never been treated smoked daily.

Adult cigarette smokers treated with Ritalin as children were twice as likely to abuse cocaine as those who never smoked or were treated with CNS stimulant drugs, Lambert found. Only two percent of those studied who had never smoked or taken Ritalin were dependent on cocaine as adults, compared to 40 percent among those who both smoked and were treated with CNS stimulants.


http://www.adhdfraud.org/commentary/121802-3.htm
Muniz/Novartis close with yet another lie; that Ritalin (methylphenidate) is not addictive. He/they state:

"Moreover, neither the researchers nor the article mention other published peer-reviewed human studies demonstrating that stimulant treatment for ADHD actually reduces the risk for substance abuse among ADHD patients, who are at an increased risk for this behavior when left untreated. One such study, conducted by researchers at Harvard, was published in the August 1999 issue of Pediatrics [Biederman, et al] and found a significant decrease in substance abuse among adolescent and adult ADHD patients who were treated with stimulants.

Biederman, et al, researchers long-time ties to Novartis and CHADD, compared 56 medicated and 19 (nineteen) non-medicated ADHD subjects, and concluded (1) that the never-validated "disease" ADHD was a risk factor for substance use disorder (SUD) in adolescence, and (2) that Ritalin/amphetamine treatment?treatment with substances of addiction--was associated with an 85% reduction in risk for SUD in ADHD youth. With this single, small, contrived, study, Biederman, et al, Muniz and Novartis claimed to negate a half-century of addiction/pharmacological literature on Ritalin/methylphenidate. Despite petitions by Ciba/Novartis and CHADD, the DEA and INCB continue, as the evidence demands, to classify Ritalin as a Schedule II, controlled substance. The DEA states [Methylphenidate (A Background Paper) October, 1995]:

Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD, Neurology/Child Neurology

Deborah:
http://www.ritalindeath.com/
According to Dr. Ljuba Dragovic, the Chief Pathologist of Oakland County, Michigan, upon autopsy, Matthew's heart showed clear signs of small vessel damage caused from the use of Methylphenidate (Ritalin).

I was told by one of the medical examiners that a full-grown man's heart weighs about 350 grams and that Matthew's heart's weight was about 402 grams. Dr. Dragovic said this type of heart damage is smoldering and not easily detected with the standard test done for prescription refills. The standard test usually consists of blood work, listening to the heart, and questions about school behaviors, sleeping and eating habits.

http://www.addmtc.com/ref2.html
These data suggest that MPH may have persistent, cumulative effects on the myocardium. [From Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63104]

Anonymous:
Deborah !  your research is fabulous.  I have a grandson on Ritalin and I am going to print off this research for my daughter.  Keep up the good work!!!

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