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Decoding Psychiatric Propaganda
http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters
U.S. Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Drug and Chemical Evaluation Section,1995
Methylphenidate (Ritalin)
1. Ritalin is a Schedule II stimulate, structurally and
pharmacologically similar to amphetamines and cocaine and has the same
dependency profile of cocaine and other stimulants.
2. Ritalin produces amphetamine and cocaine-like reinforcing effects
including increased rate of euphoria and drug liking. Treatment with
Ritalin in childhood predisposes takers to cocaine's reinforcing
effects.
3. In humans, chronic administration of Ritalin produced tolerance and
showed cross-tolerance with cocaine and amphetamines.
4. Ritalin is chosen over cocaine in self-administered preference
studies in non-human primates.
5. Ritalin produces behavioral, physiological and reinforcing effects
similar to amphetamines.
6. Ritalin substitutes for cocaine and amphetamines in scientific
studies.
7. Children medicated with Ritalin who tried cocaine reported higher
levels of drug dependence than those who had not used Ritalin.
8. Ritalin abuse is neither benign or rare in occurrence and is
accurately described as producing severe dependence.
9. Sweden removed Ritalin from its market in 1968 because of
widespread abuse.
10. More high school seniors were abusing Ritalin than those taking it
medically prescribed.
11. Side-effects or Ritalin: increased blood pressure, heart rate,
respirations and temperature; appetite suppression, weight loss,
growth retardation; facial tics, muscle twitching, central nervous
system stimulation, euphoria, nervousness, irritability and agitation,
psychotic episodes, violent behavior, paranoid delusions,
hallucinations, bizarre behaviors, heart arrhythmias, palpitations and
high blood pressure; tolerance and psychological dependence and death.
12. Ritalin will affect normal children and adults the same as those
with attention and behavior problems. Effectiveness of Ritalin is not
diagnostic.
13. CHADD, non-profit organization, which promotes the use of Ritalin,
also receives a great deal of money from the drug manufacturer of
Ritalin. CHADD does not inform its members of the abuse problems of
Ritalin. CHADD portrays the drug as a benign, mild stimulant that is
not associated with abuse of serious side-effects. Statements by CHADD
are inconsistent with scientific literature.
14. The International Narcotics Control Board expressed concern that
CHADD is actively lobbying for the use of Ritalin in children.
15. Ritalin is one of the top ten drugs involved in drug thefts and is
being abused by health professionals as well as street addicts.
Decoding Psychiatric Propaganda
http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters
"We must aim to make [Psychiatry[ permeate every educational activity
in our national life. We have made a useful attack upon a number of
professions. The two easiest of them, naturally, are the teaching
profession and the Church. The two most difficult are law and
medicine. ..Public life, politics and industry should all of them be
within our sphere of influence. ..If we are to infiltrate the
professional and social activities of other people I think we must
imitate the totalitarians and organise some kind of fifth column
activity. If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread
we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity. ..Let us all, therefore,
very secretly be fifth columnists." Psychiatrist, J. R. Rees,
"Strategic Planning for Mental Health", National Council for Mental
Hygiene UK, June 18 1940.
"Psychiatry must now decide what is to be the immediate future of the
human race. No one else can." Psychiatrist, G. Brock Chisolm,
Reestablishment/The Responsibility of Psychiatry." 1945.
http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters
U.S. Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Drug and Chemical Evaluation Section,1995
Methylphenidate (Ritalin)
1. Ritalin is a Schedule II stimulate, structurally and
pharmacologically similar to amphetamines and cocaine and has the same
dependency profile of cocaine and other stimulants.
2. Ritalin produces amphetamine and cocaine-like reinforcing effects
including increased rate of euphoria and drug liking. Treatment with
Ritalin in childhood predisposes takers to cocaine's reinforcing
effects.
3. In humans, chronic administration of Ritalin produced tolerance and
showed cross-tolerance with cocaine and amphetamines.
4. Ritalin is chosen over cocaine in self-administered preference
studies in non-human primates.
5. Ritalin produces behavioral, physiological and reinforcing effects
similar to amphetamines.
6. Ritalin substitutes for cocaine and amphetamines in scientific
studies.
7. Children medicated with Ritalin who tried cocaine reported higher
levels of drug dependence than those who had not used Ritalin.
8. Ritalin abuse is neither benign or rare in occurrence and is
accurately described as producing severe dependence.
9. Sweden removed Ritalin from its market in 1968 because of
widespread abuse.
10. More high school seniors were abusing Ritalin than those taking it
medically prescribed.
11. Side-effects or Ritalin: increased blood pressure, heart rate,
respirations and temperature; appetite suppression, weight loss,
growth retardation; facial tics, muscle twitching, central nervous
system stimulation, euphoria, nervousness, irritability and agitation,
psychotic episodes, violent behavior, paranoid delusions,
hallucinations, bizarre behaviors, heart arrhythmias, palpitations and
high blood pressure; tolerance and psychological dependence and death.
12. Ritalin will affect normal children and adults the same as those
with attention and behavior problems. Effectiveness of Ritalin is not
diagnostic.
13. CHADD, non-profit organization, which promotes the use of Ritalin,
also receives a great deal of money from the drug manufacturer of
Ritalin. CHADD does not inform its members of the abuse problems of
Ritalin. CHADD portrays the drug as a benign, mild stimulant that is
not associated with abuse of serious side-effects. Statements by CHADD
are inconsistent with scientific literature.
14. The International Narcotics Control Board expressed concern that
CHADD is actively lobbying for the use of Ritalin in children.
15. Ritalin is one of the top ten drugs involved in drug thefts and is
being abused by health professionals as well as street addicts.
Decoding Psychiatric Propaganda
http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters
"We must aim to make [Psychiatry[ permeate every educational activity
in our national life. We have made a useful attack upon a number of
professions. The two easiest of them, naturally, are the teaching
profession and the Church. The two most difficult are law and
medicine. ..Public life, politics and industry should all of them be
within our sphere of influence. ..If we are to infiltrate the
professional and social activities of other people I think we must
imitate the totalitarians and organise some kind of fifth column
activity. If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread
we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity. ..Let us all, therefore,
very secretly be fifth columnists." Psychiatrist, J. R. Rees,
"Strategic Planning for Mental Health", National Council for Mental
Hygiene UK, June 18 1940.
"Psychiatry must now decide what is to be the immediate future of the
human race. No one else can." Psychiatrist, G. Brock Chisolm,
Reestablishment/The Responsibility of Psychiatry." 1945.