RITALIN IS HIGHLY ADDICTIVE - Commentary by Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD

RITALIN IS HIGHLY ADDICTIVE

[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
There has never been any doubt of the
addictiveness of Ritalin/methylphenidate. People in psychiatry, paid to say
ADHD is a disease, Ritalin is safe & non-addictive, say it because they are
paid to say it or because they make their living making patients of normals
and drugging them. FB]

  UM study: Ritalin use may worsen cocaine abuse
  BY CONNIE PRATER AND SHARI RUDAVSKY, cprater@herald.com

  People who use cocaine regularly may have a harder time breaking the habit
  if they used Ritalin or the club drug Ecstasy in their youth, a University
  of Miami study suggests.
  The number of U.S. children and adolescents who were prescribed Ritalin and
  other stimulants surged dramatically in the 1990s.

[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD:
FB From 500,000
in 1985 to 1.0 million in 1990, to 6 million today--with no evidence that it
is a bona fide disease]

  The study, conducted on laboratory mice, found that rodents given Ritalin
  and Ecstasy, then later cocaine, showed higher sensitivity to cocaine than
  those that hadn't been exposed to the first two stimulants.
  "If they start using drugs, these guys that have been preexposed to Ritalin
  and Ecstasy may be more susceptible for relapse than others," said Yossef
  Itzhak, a UM professor of psychiatry and the lead researcher on the study.

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