Too many teachers or school administrators try to subdue unruly students with Ritalin or other psychiatric drugs because it makes them easier to manage – it’s time to change that! (Ed.)
TALLAHASSEE – Too many teachers or school administrators try to subdue unruly students with Ritalin or other psychiatric drugs because it makes them easier to manage, Florida lawmakers said Friday. Continue reading
Why Americans will believe almost anything…
Aldous Huxley’s inspired 1956 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe described by every mystic and space captain in recorded history.
Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and to confront Nature or the World or Reality first-hand – in its unpasteurized, unedited, unretouched, infinite rawness. Continue reading
DETROIT – Michigan lawmakers are considering legislation that would bar teachers from suggesting parents obtain psychotropic drugs like Ritalin for their rambunctious offspring.
Only two states — Connecticut and Minnesota — have adopted such measures.
State Rep. Susan Tabor, R-Lansing, who sponsored one of four bills on Ritalin, said she thinks it’s inappropriate for teachers to offer diagnoses of Attention Deficit Disorder to parents. Continue reading
Testing works best as a deterrent
Before you turn yourself into your family’s own narcotics squad, experts say you need to be concerned about the relationship you are building with your teens and if you are giving them enough education on the dangers of drug use.
Question: I am desperately looking for a drug-testing facility in my area. I have a 14-year-old son, whom I believe is using marijuana, and I would like to have him tested so I can act accordingly. Continue reading
Surely at one time or another, you have heard the expression, “Noblesse Oblige,” usually bandied about by some liberal as justification for yet another entitlement program. The meaning of the phrase has been bastardized by the Kennedy clan to read, “To whom much is given, much is expected,” which is taken from the Gospel of Luke. Translated from the French, “Noblesse Oblige,” is closer to “Rank has its obligations.” Perhaps there is no real difference. Continue reading
A common variation in a gene for an immune system protein increases a child’s risk of developing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) by 30 per cent, say Israeli researchers.
ADHD affects between four and 10 per cent of school age children and is characterised by inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. The causes are unknown. But stimulant drugs such as Ritalin, which boost levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine, have been shown to reduce symptoms in many patients. Continue reading
A recent study reveals that the drug being prescribed to tens of millions of school-age children for a scientifically unproved mental disorder is more potent than cocaine.
Thirty years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that Ritalin was pharmacologically similar to cocaine in the pattern of abuse it fostered and cited it as a Schedule II drug – the most addictive in medical use. The Department of Justice also cited Ritalin as a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Substances Act, and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) warned that “Ritalin substitutes for cocaine and d-amphetamine in a number of behavioral paradigms.” Continue reading
Pain Killer Ibuprofen Blocks Heart-Protecting Action Of Aspirin
The popular pain killer ibuprofen can cripple aspirin’s ability to protect against a heart attack, researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The results, if confirmed, would have major implications for millions of people who take a small dose of aspirin every day to thin the blood, but who also take ibuprofen, to cope with conditions such as arthritis. Continue reading
Article misrepresents research linking abortion, breast cancer
A women’s group has accused Redbook of misrepresenting research that associates breast cancer with induced abortion and the birth-control pill. The article, “Seven cancer facts you need to know now,” published in the September 2001 issue, denies the existence of an abortion-breast cancer link, calling it a “persistent rumor.”
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer seeks from Redbook an immediate and prominent retraction of the article. Continue reading
NORFOLK – Legislators and school officials responded with calls for action Thursday after hearing that Hampton Roads cities have some of the highest rates in the nation for use of Ritalin, a drug for attention deficit disorders.
“It’s scary, in my opinion, because I don’t know why,” Del.-elect Winsome Sears said at a legislative forum at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters. “The fact that we’re not the only one in the country is not comforting. I want to know why so many children here are on Ritalin.” Continue reading
She had no idea she had a popular party drug on hand.
To her, the vial of prescription pills she’d once been given to treat attention deficit disorder were just leftovers, until a friend from New York called to ask if she’d mail out a few–just for fun.
The woman, a 29-year-old San Diego resident, didn’t do it. But she and her friends were intrigued. Continue reading
May? I would suggest that with all the postings, which we have shared in this category, that there would be no doubt. Ritalin seems to alter the chemical makeup of anyone taking this poison. (Ed.)
The stimulant Ritalin, a drug used to help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, may cause long-term changes in the brain, researchers reported yesterday. Continue reading
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Americans have grown so accustomed to relying upon prescription medications that they will probably have difficulty believing there are natural compounds as close as the kitchen cupboard that are potent antidotes against biological warfare. These natural antibiotics and antioxidants may give unvaccinated people who have been exposed to biological or chemical weapons enough time to secure professional care. They may even save lives. Continue reading
…and now they have a new weekly dose of prozac, which can be taken. We’ve also heard that the patent runs out for the stuff soon and another company says they are going to produce the stuff and sell it for half as much. Oh goody! Now the government can prescribe twice as much! May Heaven help US! (Ed.)
The late comic Groucho Marx, after throwing a coin into a fountain, was told he could make a wish.
“I wish I hadn’t seen that movie last night,” was Groucho’s wish. I’m one who understands an apparently wasted wish like that.
I wish I hadn’t learned that lesson in Newfoundland. Continue reading
One egregious and less-than-publicized side of the drug war is its interference with doctors and their ailing patients, especially those suffering from chronic pain.
WND’s “Babe in the Bunker,” Barbara Simpson, wrote recently about a lawsuit aimed at one Dr. Wing Chin, an internist sued by the family of cancer patient William Bergman for not adequately treating his pain. Bergman is now dead, but the family scored a purse of $1.5 million in general damages. Continue reading