I posted this in August last year:
I don't know why, but we have not heard much about this study in the mainstream press .....
"In a small but startling preliminary new study, Texas researchers have found that after just three months, every one of a dozen children treated for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with the drug methylphenidate experienced a threefold increase in levels of chromosome abnormalities—occurrences associated with increased risks of cancer and other adverse health effects.
The researchers say that to their knowledge this is the first study addressing the potential chromosome-breaking effects associated with treatment of children with methylphenidate, the generic name for a group of drugs that includes Ritalin, Concerta, Metadate CD and others."
Now we have a new study from the CDC intimating that app. 3000 visits to Emergency rooms are caused by these same drugs each year, many of them resulting in hospitalization.
I ask myself. what has to happen before Doctors stop handing out these drugs right and left? (I almost said "like candy"...)
Consider that first of all, this disorder has no true objective diagnosis; and second, many of the children who are put on Ritalin are in any event not diagnosed. This is not to say ADD/ADHD does not exist: but my position is that while many children ARE misdiagnosed, where the condition does exist, before possibly damaging drugs are used, other less dangerous, more supportive and natural methods should be used.
