-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Kasten, Kathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [MC] Over the Edge: Ritalin & Antidepressants: Part II Date: Monday, November 15, 1999 7:19 PM Whole Life Times; November 1999, Over the Edge: Ritalin and Antidepressants Part II of a two-part story by Jon Rappoport, page 32-33 (snips) Deadly Cocktail: Ritalin and Antidepressants In Toxic Psychiatry, Dr. Breggin discusses the subject of drug combinations: "Combing antidepressants (e.g., Prozac, Luvox) and psychostimulants (e.g., Ritalin) increases the risk of cardiovascular catastrophe, seizures, sedation, euphoria and psychosis. Withdrawal from the combination can cause a severe reaction that includes confusion, emotional instability, agitation and aggression." Children are frequently medicated with this combination, and when we highlight such effects as aggression, psychosis and emotional instability, it is obvious that the result is pointing toward the very real possibility of violence. Ritalin, a brand name for the drug methylphenidate, is given to perhaps two million American schoolchildren for a condition called Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder (ADD or ADHD). ADD and ADHD, for which no organic causes have ever been found, are touted as disease-conditions that predominantly afflict the young, causing hyperactivity, unmanageability, and learning problems. Of course, when you name a disorder or a syndrome and yet can find no provable cause for it, you have nothing more than a loose collection of behaviors with an arbitrary title. You also have a pharmaceutical bonanza. The original patent holder and principal manufacturer of Ritalin was Ciba-Geigy, whose headquarters are in Switzerland. Ciba-Geigy is now known as Novartis, having merged with pharmaceutical giant Sandoz. The well-known Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics reveals a strange fact. It states that Ritalin is "structurally related to amphetamines. Its pharmacological properties are essentially the same as those of amphetamines." In other words, the only clear difference is legality. And the effects, in layman's terms, are obvious. You take speed and after awhile, sooner or later, you start crashing. You become agitated, irritable, paranoid, delusional, aggressive. A firm and objective medical review needs to be done in all of the school shootings, to determine how many of the shooters were on, or had at one time been on Ritalin. (snips) Ritalin is classified by the DEA as a Schedule II drug due to its high potential for abuse and psychic dependence. Ritalin is speed dressed up as medicine. Users frequently go on to other drugs to even themselves out. The Brookhaven National Laboratory has studied Ritalin through PET scans. Lab research has found that the drug decreased the flow of blood to all parts of the brain by 20-30%. That is a danger signal. But parent, teachers, counselors, principals and school psychologists know nothing about this. Cocaine produces the same blood-flow restriction effect. According to Peter Breggin in Talking Back to Ritalin, "Stimulants such as Ritalin and amphetamine have grossly harmful impacts on the brain-reducing overall blood flow, disturbing glucose metabolism, and possibly causing permanent shrinkage or atrophy of the brain." - - - - - - - - End quote from article - - - - - - ************************************************************** MINDCONTROL-L Mind Control and Psyops Mailing List To unsubscribe or subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text: "unsubscribe MINDCONTROL-L" or "subscribe MINDCONTROL-L". 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