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| JOHN |
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http://www.whale.to/a/ritalin.html
It is a schedule 2 narcotic, along with heroin and cocaine. That's an
official designation.....And there is some evidence to suggest that it
causes atrophy of the brain. Interview with Dr Peter Breggin on Ritalin
"We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male population and
illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. It may surprise you to
learn that a greater problem exists with millions of women dependent on
legal prescription drugs." Robert Mendelsohn, M.D
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." ......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." .....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.
Ritalin - The Hidden Effects...Article by Independent Investigative Reporter
Jon Rappaport
A woman with a newborn baby is too starry-eyed to see a wealthy man's cannon
fodder or a cheap source of slave labor. A woman must, however, be
conditioned to accept the transition to "reality" when it comes, or sooner.
As the transition becomes more difficult to manage, the family unit must be
carefully disintegrated, and state-controlled public education and
state-operated child-care centers must be become more common and legally
enforced so as to begin the detachment of the child from the mother and
father at an earlier age. Inoculation of behavioral drugs [Ritalin] can
speed the transition for the child (mandatory). Silent Weapons for Quiet
Wars
Let's talk about bipolar disorder among kids. As one doctor said, that used
to be so rare as to be almost nonexistent. Now we're seeing it all over.
Bipolar is exploding among kids. Well, partly you could say that we're just
slapping that label on kids more often; but in fact, there is something real
going on. Here's what's happening. You take kids and put them on an
antidepressant -- which we never used to do -- or you put them on a
stimulant like Ritalin. Stimulants can cause mania; stimulants can cause
psychosis.
so the kid ends up with a drug-induced manic or psychotic episode. Once
they have that, the doctor at the emergency room doesn't say, "Oh, he's
suffering from a drug-induced episode." He says he's bipolar
they give him an antipsychotic drug; and now he's on a cocktail of
drugs, and he's on a path to becoming disabled for life. That's an example
of how we're absolutely making kids sick.
Ritalin is methylphenidate. Now methylphenidate affects the brain in
exactly the same way as cocaine. They both block a molecule that is involved
in the reuptake of dopamine.
So methylphenidate is very similar to cocaine. Now, one difference is
whether you're snorting it or if it's in a pill. That partly changes how
quickly it's metabolized. But still, it basically affects the brain in the
same way. Now, methylphenidate was used in research studies to deliberately
stir psychosis in schizophrenics. Because they knew that you could take a
person with a tendency towards psychosis, give them methylphenidate, and
cause psychosis. We also knew that amphetamines, like methylphenidate, could
cause psychosis in people who had never been psychotic before.
So think about this. We're giving a drug to kids that is known to have
the possibility of stirring psychosis. Now, the odd thing about
methylphenidate and amphetamines is that, in kids, they sort of have a
counterintuitive effect. What does speed do in adults? It makes them more
jittery and hyperactive. For whatever reasons, in kids amphetamines will
actually still their movements; it will actually keep them in their chairs
and make them more focused. So you've got kids in boring schools. The boys
are not paying attention and they're diagnosed with ADHD and put on a drug
that is known to stir psychosis. The next thing you know, a fair number of
them are not doing well by the time they're 15, 16, 17. Some of those kids
talk about how when you're on these drugs for the long term, you start
feeling like a zombie; you don't feel like yourself.
Millions of kids! Think about what we're doing. We're robbing kids of
their right to be kids, their right to grow, their right to experience their
full range of emotions, and their right to experience the world in its full
hue of colors. That's what growing up is, that's what being alive is! And
we're robbing kids of their right to be. It's so criminal. And we're talking
about millions of kids who have been affected this way. There are some
colleges where something like 40 to 50 percent of the kids arrive with a
psychiatric prescription. Psychiatric Drugs: An Assault on the Human
Condition Street Spirit Interview with Robert Whitaker
In the same year, the Washington Post (3) published the fact that Ritalin
which is prescribed to very young children had never been tested on that age
group (under 6's) and yet, between 150,000 - 200,000 children between the
ages of 2 and 4 were prescribed Ritalin. Hilary Butler letter to BMJ 2004 |
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| Rick Morris |
| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:22 am |
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On 11/14/06 11:57 PM, in article d7ydnc9HPYPGMcfYnZ2dnUVZ8tKdnZ2d@bt.com,
"JOHN" <john@btinternet.com> wrote:
Quote: It is a schedule 2 narcotic, along with heroin and cocaine. That's an
official designation.....And there is some evidence to suggest that it
causes atrophy of the brain. Interview with Dr Peter Breggin on Ritalin
Actually heroin is schedule 1. Morphine is schedule 2. Maybe you are mixing
your opioids up?
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| Mark Probert |
| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:26 am |
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Rick Morris wrote:
Quote: On 11/14/06 11:57 PM, in article d7ydnc9HPYPGMcfYnZ2dnUVZ8tKdnZ2d@bt.com,
"JOHN" <john@btinternet.com> wrote:
It is a schedule 2 narcotic, along with heroin and cocaine. That's an
official designation.....And there is some evidence to suggest that it
causes atrophy of the brain. Interview with Dr Peter Breggin on Ritalin
Actually heroin is schedule 1. Morphine is schedule 2. Maybe you are mixing
your opioids up?
That could explain John's other behaviors.... |
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| Jeff |
| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:31 pm |
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"JOHN" <john@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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<whale to's intelligent comments left in>
Jeff |
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| John Thompson |
| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:20 am |
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["Followup-To:" header set to sci.med.nursing.]
On 2006-11-15, JOHN <john@btinternet.com> wrote:
Quote: http://www.whale.to/a/ritalin.html
It is a schedule 2 narcotic, along with heroin and cocaine. That's an
official designation.
It's not a Schedule 2 narcotic; it's a Schedule II Controlled Substance,
which means that although it ihas legitimate medication uses, it also
has high potential for abuse. Cocaine, Morphine, Percocet, and
Phenobarbitol are also Schedule II controlled substances, but heroin is
a Schedule I controlled substance, meaning it has high abuse potential
WITHOUT legitimate medical uses.
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John (john@os2.dhs.org) |
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| JOHN |
| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:33 pm |
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"Jeff" <jeff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"JOHN" <john@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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whale to's intelligent comments left in
Jeff
one for you jeff
"Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool...
Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal."
- In "Galileo Galilei" by Berthold Brecht (1898-1956)
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| Mark Probert |
| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:35 pm |
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JOHN wrote:
Quote: "Jeff" <jeff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:RbP6h.7821$ig4.6425@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
"JOHN" <john@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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whale to's intelligent comments left in
Jeff
one for you jeff
"Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool...
Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal."
Hmmm...
They're coming to take you away.... |
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