After years of researching how things work you sometimes just shake your head and then after wonder why are people such sheep. Then you think why are our kids walking around today in a stupefied state. You know today the most used babysitter is the TV set or a video game console. We as adults are so consumed in our own lives either as a single parent or just trying to make ends meat that we sometime forget that our kids are our responsibility. So what happens when a child gets a little hard to handle. Do we give them a smack like our parents did to us? Then we have choice b as the Big Pharmacy companies are smacking their lips saying oh look another billion dollars in our pocket. The real choice is be a good parent and look to see what the route cause is for their behavior problems but most go well a zombfied child is easier to deal with kinda like that big drink of vodka some have when they come home from a bad day at work.
Today the method to parent is jack a child up on Ritalin. My ex sister in law and I debated it a few years back when her little fellow that yes was a hellion but still a child that was just overactive because his life. He was watching his mother and father have slug fests and screaming debates in front of him..Hmmm wonder why the kid was a little on the messed up side. Many think Ritalin (methylphenidate) is safe, or mild, because so many children use it. However, the government classifies the psychoactive drug with cocaine and morphine because it is highly addictive
. There we go give our kids something like coke, maybe they will be president of the USA someday.
I looked at the label of a bottle and this is the medical warnings on it:
ADVERSE REACTIONS
Nervousness and insomnia are the most common adverse reactions but are usually controlled by reducing dosage and omitting the drug in the afternoon or evening. Other reactions include hypersensitivity (including skin rash, urticaria [hives], fever, arthralgia [intense burning or stabbing pain caused by irritation of or damage to a nerve], exfoliative dermatitis [peeling skin], erythema multiforme [red blotches or blisters all over the skin] with histopathological [microscopic] findings of necrotizing vasculitis [death of blood vessels], and thrombocytopenic purpura [purplish spots or patches]); anorexia [loss of appetite]; nausea; dizziness; palpitations [irregular, hard or rapid heartbeat]; headache; dyskinesia [muscle spasms]; drowsiness; blood pressure and pulse changes, both up and down; tachycardia [rapid heart rate]; angina [caused by an insufficient supply of blood to the heart muscle]; cardiac arrhythmia [irregularity of the heartbeat]; abdominal pain; weight loss during prolonged therapy. There have been rare reports of Tourette's syndrome. Toxic psychosis has been reported. Although a definite causal relationship has not been established, the following have been reported in patients taking this drug: leukopenia [abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood] and/or anemia; a few instances of scalp hair loss.
In children, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, weight loss during prolonged therapy, insomnia, and tachycardia [rapid heart rate] may occur more frequently; however, any of the other adverse reactions listed above may also occur.
DRUG DEPENDENCE
Ritalin should be given cautiously to emotionally unstable patients, such as those with a history of drug dependence or alcoholism, because such patients may increase dosage on their own initiative. Chronically abusive use can lead to marked tolerance and psychic dependence with varying degrees of abnormal behavior. Frank psychotic episodes can occur, especially with parental abuse. Careful supervision is required during drug withdrawal, since severe depression as well as the effects of chronic over activity can be unmasked. Long-term follow-up may be required because of the patient's basic personality disturbances.
Remember when Prozac came out it was the miracle drug also. I guess it was until people started killing people while on it. I started grabbing some quotes from some high profiled magazines."Physiological effects of oral cocaine and methylphenidate (Ritalin) were similar."
Rush, C.R., et al. "Behavioral pharmacological similarities between methylphenidate and cocaine in cocaine abusers,"
Exp. Clin. Psychopharmacol: Feb;9(1):59-73(2001):
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11519636.
Emergency room visits by children ages 10-14 involving Ritalin intoxication or overdoses have now reached the same level as those for cocaine--indicating escalating abuse of the addictive drug.
Diller, L.H.
Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill; Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub. Group, Inc. (1998); citing Feussner, G. "Actual Abuse Issues,"
Conference Report: Stimulant Use in the Treatment of ADHD, Drug Enforcement Administration, US Department of Justice, Washington DC, Dec. 1996.
Ritalin was first synthesized in 1944 in an unsuccessful attempt to create a stimulant that would not induce addiction or tolerance and they failed miserably.
HEALTH CANADA (2006): A 16-year-old boy taking extended-release methylphenidate, with no history of sexual dysfunction, experienced priapism (a painful, persistent and abnormal erection unaccompanied by sexual desire or excitation) that would last up to 24 hours whenever he forgot to take his medication. He had been taking 54 mg of the drug daily for about one year for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and was not taking any other medications. The priapism would resolve after he took his medication. Treatment with extended-release methylphenidate was continued because the product worked well in controlling his ADHD. The patient did not appear to have any sexual dysfunction when he remembered to take his medication. Priapism is not labeled in the Canadian product monograph.
A case of priapism associated with withdrawal from sustained-release methylphenidate has been reported in the literature.
So here is something if you do not want your children to reproduce get them on Ritalin. I still think and call me crazy but maybe being a good parent and have them raised in a positive home might be a better solution. If not contribute to the zombie nation of children we are creating, if not Prove me Wrong.
As it is the night before Christmas and the only thing stirring is a year gone past. We all tend to reflect on the life we have led and the good and bad things we have enjoyed and endured. Our relationships with family, friends and loved ones that at times have been good and at times bad. I do not think we ever truly get it 100% right in life but I always try to come close to at least 99%, someday I may achieve it. It is hard because we are only human beings scurrying around this big planet trying to do what in our minds that is right through our own eyes and perception of right and wrong or good and bad. 
