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'Ritalin
prescription fears raised' - BBC on-line, Sept 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/5308292.stm
This is what
the BBC has to say about Ritalin;br
"Children
with the behavioural condition ADHD are continuing to be prescribed
drugs such as Ritalin, despite an ongoing investigation. BBC Scotland
has learned a review of the medical guidelines used by doctors to
diagnose and treat ADHD will not be available until March 2008."
But as long
ago as 1999 fathers groups [Men's Aid] have been warning of Ritalin's
dangers and possible side-affects. We discovered, in 2000, that Ritalin
had not been tested on young people or children. It was only approved
for adults, i.e. aged over 21, and its affects on a child's brain that
was still undergoing development was uncertain.
The mass shootings
at Columbine all involved Ritalin and ADHD suppressants [i.e. Luvox
and Prozac] but this was not widely reported in the Media.
We now know
that in adults Luvox and Prozac stem from a group of drugs that can
induce suicide and murderous tendencies.
Detail - Luvox
and Prozac.
A look back
at 1998/99:
. . . . There
are nearly 6 million children in the United States between the ages
of 6 and 18 taking mind-altering drugs prescribed for alleged mental
illnesses that increasing numbers of mental-health professionals are
questioning.
. . . . Although
the list of school-age children who have gone on violent rampages is
growing at disturbing rate -- and the shootings at Columbine became
a national wake-up call -- few in the mental-health community have been
willing to talk about the possibility that the heavily prescribed drugs
and violence may be linked. Those who try to investigate quickly learn
that virtually all data concerning violence and psychotropic drugs are
protected by the confidentiality provided minors. But in the highly
publicized shootings this Spring, information has been made available
to the public.
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April
16: 1999
Shawn Cooper, a 15-year-old sophomore at Notus Junior-Senior High
School in Notus, Idaho, was taking Ritalin, the most commonly prescribed
stimulant, for bipolar disorder when he fired two shotgun rounds,
narrowly missing students and school staff.
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April
20: 1999
Harris, an 18-year-old senior at Columbine High School, killed a
dozen students and a teacher before taking his own life. Prior to
the shooting rampage, he had been under the influence of Luvox,
one of the new selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, or SSRI,
antidepressants approved in 1997 by the Food and Drug Administration,
or FDA, for children up to the age of 17 for treatment of obsessive-compulsive
disorder, or OCD.
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May 20: 1999
T.J. Solomon, a 15-year-old at Heritage High School in Conyers,
Ga., was being treated with Ritalin for depression when he opened
fire on and wounded six classmates.
. . . . Two
other high-profile cases from 1998: show a similar pattern:
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May
21, 1998
Kip Kinkel, a 15-year-old at Thurston High School in Springfield,
Ore., murdered his parents and then proceeded to school where he
opened fire on students in the cafeteria, killing two and wounding
22. Kinkel had been prescribed both Ritalin and Prozac. Although
widely used among adults, Prozac has not been approved by the FDA
for pediatric use.
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March
24, 1998
Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, opened fire on their
classmates at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark. Johnson
had been receiving psychiatric counselling and, although information
about the psychotropic drugs that may have been prescribed for him
has not been made public, his attorney, Val Price, responded when
asked about it: "I think that is confidential information,
and I don't want to reveal that."
School shooting
have been occurring since 1997. The URL below gives more dates and locations
involving school shootings: -
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/godexists/shooting.html
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