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Subject: ADHD drugs new... and More American Psychiatric Association
BullSh*t

Date: Thursday, May 25, 2006 11:08:54 [View Source]

Re: New article below-WashPost

Corrections:
Children who take ADHD drugs are LIKELIER to use mind
altering drugs when they become adults. Like cocaine.
This I know from my interviews in the CT prison,
where I went for being falsely accused of being a
terrorist...

...including adult post-ADHD-using children of people
who work for Pfizer.
FACT.

http://actionlyme.org/MCGLASHAN_PSYCHIATRY_UPDATE_WE_HAVE_NO_IDEA_WHAT_WE_ARE_DOING.html
http://actionlyme.org/DCF_YALES_PSYCHOTROPICS_ABUSE_OF_CHILDREN.htm
http://actionlyme.org/Psychiatric_MumboJumbo.wmv
http://actionlyme.org/LYME_IS_A_PERMANENT_BRAIN_INFECTION.htm
Due to the malpractice of James Phillips... who was in
possession of the entirety of this website, as of Nov
2000, when I gave it to him in hard copy:
http://www.geocities.com/kmdickson0308/lyme-dilemma.html
and this chapter by Brian Fallon, which I gave to him
in April 2002:
http://actionlyme.org/Fallon.htm
'Defrauding the courts, false allegations, false
arrest, and incompetent cowards who have no other
topics besides sex--> DCF, DMHAS, and Yale.

Note that APA says otherwise. This is totally
incorrect. People take ADHD drugs for weight loss,
too. It's SPEED, and results in mental retardation
due to the downregulation of dopamine- a chemical
equilibrium effect. These speed type drugs are so
popular, people cook up their own- Meth.

Some people prefer coffee to go with their Lyme
dementia. Others get ProVigil when they ask for it.
I did not (asked Sep 2000). Phillips and penises -
Nary a fact is allowed to be on the table since 1980.
If he "loves" (sarcasm) me so much, why did he keep
chasing me down to come back?

YUK!

APA are *TOTAL* *DUNCES*
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_frm/thread/df0d595f8c23f271/9a021517cb0d451f?lnk=st&q=there+will+be+no+more+spirochete-like+discoveries&rnum=5#9a021517cb0d451f

By LINDA A. JOHNSON
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 24, 2006; 10:56 PM

-- Accidental overdoses and side effects from
attention deficit drugs likely send thousands of
children and adults to emergency rooms, according to
the first national estimates of the problem.

Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention estimated problems with the stimulant drugs
drive nearly 3,100 people to ERs each year. Nearly
two-thirds _ overdoses and accidental use _ could be
prevented by parents locking the pills away, the
researchers say.

Other patients had side effects, including potential
cardiac problems such as chest pain, stroke, high
blood pressure and fast heart rate.

Concerns over those effects have led some doctors to
urge the Food and Drug Administration to require a
"black box," its most serious warning, on package
inserts for drugs such as Ritalin, Concerta and
Adderall. Yet even doctors advising the FDA don't
agree on whether that's warranted.

The issue was discussed in a series of letters in
Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, including
some from doctors worried about the dangers of not
treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

"The numbers (of side effects) are puny compared to
the numbers of stimulant prescriptions per year," said
Dr. Tolga Taneli, a child and adolescent psychiatrist
at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
in Newark. "I'm not alarmed."

An estimated 3.3 million Americans who are 19 or
younger and nearly 1.5 million ages 20 and older are
taking ADHD medicines. Ritalin is made by Novartis
Pharmaceuticals Corp. of East Hanover, N.J.; Concerta
by Johnson & Johnson of New Brunswick, N.J., and
Adderall by Shire US Inc. of Newport, Ky.

Twenty-five deaths linked to ADHD drugs, 19 involving
children, were reported to FDA from 1999 through 2003.
Fifty-four other cases of serious heart problems,
including heart attacks and strokes, were also
reported. Some of the patients had prior heart
problems.

Still, there hasn't been a clear estimate of the scope
of side effects. The CDC report, while not a rigorous
scientific study, attempts to provide that by using a
new hospital surveillance network.

>From August 2003 through December 2005, the
researchers counted 188 ER visits for problems with
the drugs at the 64 hospitals in the network, a
representative sample of ERs monitored to spot drug
side effects.

Doctors linked use of stimulant ADHD drugs to 73
patients with side effects or allergic reactions.
Another 115 accidentally swallowed ADHD pills,
including a month-old baby, or took too much.

"These are cases where a young child took someone
else's medication or they took too much of their own,"
CDC epidemiologist Dr. Adam Cohen said of the second
group.

Nearly 1 in 5 patients was admitted to the hospital, 1
in 5 needed stomach pumping or treatment with
medicines, and 1 in 7 had cardiac symptoms. Sixteen
percent of the side effects involved interaction with
another drug.

Besides cardiac problems, common symptoms included
abdominal pain, rashes and spasms, pain or weakness in
muscles, according to Cohen. No patients died.

Extrapolating to all U.S. hospitals, the researchers
estimated 3,075 ER visits occur each year.

In another letter in the journal, the heads of the
American Psychiatric Association and the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry wrote they
are concerned a black box warning would discourage use
of ADHD drugs, raising patients' risks of academic
failure, substance abuse and other problems.

This past February, an FDA drug safety advisory panel
voted 8-7 for a black box warning. The next month,
another FDA panel instead recommended data on cardiac
and other risks go in a new "highlights" section the
agency plans to add to the top of drug inserts.

Dr. Marsha Rappley, pediatrics professor at Michigan
State University, and two other doctors on the
advisory panels believe the vote for a black box was
premature.

She said studies show the drugs raise blood pressure
and pulse rates a bit, but it's unknown whether that
would harm children taking them for years, and that
cardiac risks may be higher for adults.

Dr. Steven Nissen, cardiology chief at the Cleveland
Clinic, who had pressed for a black box warning at the
FDA panel meeting, said ADHD drugs are powerful
stimulants and inherently risky. Nissen and other
doctors say the drugs are being prescribed to some who
don't need them.

This week, the FDA said it is "working diligently" on
"labeling changes that we feel accurately reflect the
available data and the advice of the committees." The
agency declined interview requests.

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On the Net: http://www.nejm.org/

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