"Ritalin Grin"

This is a song about Ritalin. I am dedicating it to Frank, who you will see in the photos during the bridge.I didn't know him personally, but Frank was given Ritalin as a child and also grew up to be a drug addict. He committed suicide in his late twenties.
Ritalin has been shown to increase the risk of drug addiction later in life. It has also proven to cause permanent brain changes and has never been shown to actually improve school outcome. These are just a few of the concerns with Ritalin. Drug addiction ruins lives. Why would you give a child a medication that increases their risk of becoming a drug addict, just for some short-term benefits, mainly to make the child more manageable by adults? What kind of a trade-off is this. As a mother, this is a great concern to me, especially given that Ritalin is being handed out like candy in what is being called a 'global initiative' to 'help' children (according to the Canadian Guide to Medications and Supplement). Children are often put on Ritalin at the request of a teacher, not a doctor. The doctors just comply with the school's wishes in such cases. There have even been cases of people having their children removed by CPS for refusing to medicate them with Ritalin. In one study of children on Ritalin, 6% of the subjects became psychotic from their 'treatment'. Drug addiction, death, psychosis...What are we doing?

If my child were diagnosed with ADD, the first thing I would look into would be his nutritional status and any damage from environmental toxins. Doctors who use a biomedical approach to treat ADD as well as autism get good results. I would recommend "Healing the New Childhood Epidemics" by Kenneth Bock, MD and Cameron Stauth, for anyone who is interested in this.

So I am dedicating this to Frank and all the others who were medicated as kids and were permanently damaged by it.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ritalin
• methylphenidate
• add
• adhd
• autism
• brain
• damage
• addiction
• cocaine

[di55ionize]

Im a neurobiologist receiving my phd and ive been diagnosed with this. There are some misconceptions about this here. Ritalin is not proven to increase risk of addiction or suicide. ADHD itself is known to increase risk of suicide because it has a lot of mental illnesses statistically associated with it. The same is true for drug addiction - not the medication but the disease itself is associated with higher risk of addiction. Ritalin does not change that You cant blame anything or anyone for it

[thetruthergirls]

@di55ionize I guess if you're almost at your PhD you should be smarter than to poison yourself with pharmaceuticals. My experience with having 'ADD' symptoms was that I couldn't function well because I had a stupid crappy job that I didn't like. As soon as I got fired, my 'depression' and 'ADD' problems were solved.

How did you make it this far with untreated 'ADD'? Personally, I think that a lot of people diagnosed with this have nothing wrong with them, they just have a different way of being

[paenitet7nullum]

@thetruthergirls thats what ADD is. if it was an inability to do anything, it would be death, and i aint dead. It just makes doing things wich don't give you dopamine very hard to do. because i think ppl with ADD have less dopamine, and dopamine is what life is all about, everything you do, you do to get dopamine like eating, working maybe breathing. but i'm not the one with a phd what do i know. point is; ppl with ADD can't do stuff that sucks. and in life we gotta do alot of things that suck.

[thetruthergirls]

@paenitet7nullum I was kicked out of kindergarten, that's how hyper I was. I just have a low tolerance for wasting my time. I do a lot of things that suck, that don't 'give you dopamine', I just go on automatic pilot and think about something else while I'm doing them. With that tactic, I could clean toilets for a living if I had to. But I can't do a good job doing something stupid that involves your mind, cause my mind will be elsewhere. Life is too short to waste your mind on stupid jobs.

[paenitet7nullum]

@thetruthergirls but when there is something you NEED to do your views about it change, If the mind cannot change a situation, it learns to like it. if you had ritaline you would have stayed in kindergarden and would have gotten better marks in school, wich would have gotten you a better job. aHA! full circle. ritalin is for doing stuff that doesn't give you dopamine, like algebra. it has more good then bad.

[thetruthergirls]

@paenitet7nullum Bullshit. I graduated from University with 3.36 gpa- marks very close to honors. What did you think? I dropped out of Kindergarten? I did a BFA, a TESL cert and half a B. Ed in English and then I just decided I didn't want to be a teacher after all because I didn't like what I saw of the educational system. And I am very happy doing the work I do now.

[Ladivinadama]

"Ritalin has been shown to increase the risk of drug addiction later in life. It has also proven to cause permanent brain changes and has never been shown to actually improve school outcome."

Would you mind to show some proof ? After 7.000 scientifics studies we now know that it´s exactly the opposite.

[Umadmad]

you have downs... downs grin

[MaijLij]

mam, i sad the 'station' that i mean this video is 'unangemessen'!! not cause i'm against in generell (sorry my english) its cause of - people, betroffene, who are searching for possibilities, for answers and ways without -

[MaijLij]

mam, your right beeing angry, and worried 'bout your's!!!!... who are or maybe sure NOT helped - pointet with this medicin/drog/medicine/how ever u name it!! /called: ONEwaytoTRYtohelp, and and and,... specially MY mom hates chemichl stuff and prefers and she's try-ing and hoping EVERYTHING and EVERYTIME to help, getting better, heals!!!...

[paenitet7nullum]

@thetruthergirls ... I think you are just making that stuff up. ritalin is awsome i am making it and selling it to my friends to snort it and get high all day every day and get addicted to it and then move on to other drugs like heroin cocain and meth.

[paenitet7nullum]

@mishacat99 yea don't mention the name of the documentary or anything lol. no seriously whats the name of the documentary?

[paenitet7nullum]

@thetruthergirls oh yea well I bought my B.E.D. in a store!! And it wasin't just a half! but thats not the point; the point is that ritalin is good, and it is prooven that it is good even tho people like you say it isin't.

good song tho :)