International Coalition for Drug Awareness
A Group of physicians, researchers, Journalists and concerned citizens dedicated to educating about the dangers posed by many Rx medicines.
Drug giant to face lawsuit over Ritalin The Express, May 16, 2000 FROM GRAEME BEATON IN WASHINGTON The first of what could become a barrage of lawsuits over Ritalin, the controversial medicine prescribed for hyper-active children, has been launched by American lawyers. The action seeks unspecified damages against Novartis, the £30billion Swiss pharmaceutical giant which…
From Ann Blake-Tracy…. We sent you the news last week that Oakland County Medical Examiner Dr. Ljubisa Dragovic in Pontiac, MI attributed a ten year span of Ritalin use to the heart failure death of 14 year old Matthew Smith. Apparently for years the school had threatened to turn the family in for neglect if…
The Ritalin issue is now part of primetime network dramas. If you get a chance, watch Judging Amy tonight (April 18th) 8pm EST – 7 Central…. Amy is concerned about learning why 10% of the students are on Ritalin.
Medical Examiner: Ritalin May Have Led to Boy’s Death Monday, April 17, 2000 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PONTIAC, Mich. — A medical examiner says long-term use of Ritalin, a drug used to treat hyperactive children, may have led to a 14-year-old boy’s death. Matthew Smith collapsed at his home on March 21 while playing with a…
Children, he says, tend to talk, fidget and fool around–“all the
classical ADHD-type behaviors. If you’re predisposed to label any child
as ADHD, the distracted troublemaker or the model student, you’ll find
a way to observe these behaviors.” So what might explain such a
predisposition? Paul R. McHugh, professor of psychiatry at Johns
Hopkins, writing in Commentary, argues that ADHD, “social phobia”
(usual symptom: fear of public speaking) and other disorders certified
by the American Psychiatric Association’s “Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders” are proliferating rapidly. This is because
of a growing tendency to regard as mental problems many characteristics
that are really aspects of individuality.
Below that it asks “Was the state board right to attack the use of
Ritalin?” While this isn’t exactly what the state board did, you want
to vote yes. Vote now, forward this and get others to do so.
“I am very angry and scared. I may not be out of the woods.”
The drug Ritalin is often prescribed for attention deficit disorder,
but a new study shows that the rate of kids taking the drug far exceeds
the expected number of actual ADD cases.
I was a volunteer for a hot line and received many complaints from
people
whose behavior became irrational after taking mood-altering drugs like
Prozac. The wife of comedian Phil Hartman, who killed her husband and
herself, was on the psychiatric drug Zoloft.