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twilit_wrath in little_details

Ritalin without ADHD, and looking for search terms

Jul 07, 2008 10:37

Modern day. I have searched Ritalin on Wikipedia, but otherwise am drawing a blank ( Read more... )

~medicine: drugs, 1970-1979, 1960-1969, ~psychology & psychiatry: historical

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aussielung July 7 2008, 16:00:42 UTC

I popped "ritalin long term effects" into google and got the following.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Ritalin+long+term+effects&meta=

twilit_wrath July 7 2008, 16:07:54 UTC

Not quite what I'm looking for, but thanks. I'm looking more for information on kids who were forced to take it when they didn't need it.

aussielung July 7 2008, 16:29:19 UTC

ADHD can be treated with a simple change in diet and Ritalin should only be used in an extreme. There have been studies and debates that claim ADHD is mearly an allergy to preservatives in the food we eat and that ADHD is an invented condition to sell more prescribed drugs ( ... )

archangelbeth July 7 2008, 16:35:51 UTC

Asperger's Syndrome, probably -- apparently it does frequently present itself with "hyper" behavior, which is (these days) treated more with behavioral therapy than with drugs. (At least, up here.)

Guh, I wonder if we could cut preservatives from our kid's diet... >_>

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goldencountry July 8 2008, 03:49:55 UTC

I'll second this one- one of my friends apparently spent 72 hours awake tripping on Ritalin, that's got to have some sort of effect.

azurelunatic July 7 2008, 16:45:48 UTC

https://www.caremark.com/wps/portal/HEALTH_RESOURCES?topic=ritalinabuse (google string, without quotes, was 'ritalin with and without adhd') has some stuff. Looks like basically one gets high when one doesn't need to be taking it.

madame_manga July 7 2008, 16:49:29 UTC

This is an emotional subject for me, so I will not get into the emotional part, other than pointing out that Ritalin and lobotomies are hardly equivalent. :) But I don't think that psych meds were widely used on children in the 1960s - '70s, for the simple reason that if they had been, a psychiatrist or two probably would have been strongly proposing to my parents that they be tried on me. My mother confirms this. My experience is in Michigan and California from the mid-60s to 1980, when I graduated high school. My parents had financial resources and we lived in college towns, so there's no isolation factor ( ... )

spammityspam July 7 2008, 18:29:24 UTC

There was a huge trading business at my school starting in about the sixth grade. These kids weren't forced to take it, but they definitely didn't need it. Ritalin's a stimulant; basically it gets you high as balls. I was in gifted programs all through school, and the other gifted kids who bought it (I'm causelessly terrified of drugs to the extent that I won't take Tylenol) were, basically, high as balls all the time. If anything, it would make ADHD-like symptoms worse in a kid without ADHD. For more on this, see the movie Charlie Bartlett, which has the added benefit of being hilarious while also not making you pay a whole lot of attention!