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Ritalin Use Linked with 500% Increase of Sudden Death in Children

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

E. Huff
NaturalNews.com
December 30, 2009

Research from The National Institute of Mental Health has revealed that popular Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) drugs like Ritalin are responsible for causing sudden death in many children. Study numbers indicate a 500 percent increased risk in childhood death from taking such mental health drugs.

For years, many experts, scientists, and health practitioners have speculated that ADD drugs are dangerous and can cause serious injury and death. Etta Brown, a licensed educational psychologist and author of Learning Disabilities: Understanding the Problem and Managing the Challenges explained in response to the study that drugs like Ritalin actually destroy the neural function in children’s brains. As a result, children who have undergone treatment with Ritalin will actually have a much more difficult time processing information and learning new things.

Brown also notes that Ritalin is responsible for causing a permanent tic in the face, neck, and head of many of the children who have taken or are taking it. Ironically, Ritalin is responsible for causing far more serious neurological damage than the problems it is alleged to treat. Comprehensive studies over the years have revealed that while drugs like Ritalin visibly calm children, these drugs destroy their delicate, developing nervous systems and can permanently cripple their ability to function as normal human beings.

Read entire article: http://www.naturalnews.com/027833_ritalin_sudden_death.html

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Trust drug companies and officials? ADHD Ritalin child 500% greater sudden death risk but FDA silent

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Deborah Dupre’
Examiner.com
October 16, 2009

An example of why parents today distrust drug makers and officials is FDA’s silence about the new study revealing that healthy children taking Ritalin have a 500 percent greater risk of sudden death.

“These aren’t kids with pre-existing heart conditions. The results would have been worse if they were included,” stated Dr. Al Sears, M.D. today.

Thousands of children have suddenly died as direct result of using psychotropic drugs used for ADD and ADHD according to Heather Smith, Executive Director of the National Alliance against Mandated Health Screening and Psychotropic Drugging of Children. (Smith, H. What Drugmakers Don’t Want You to Know, Thousands of children have suddenly died over the years, as a direct result of using psychotropic drugs used for ADD and ADHD, RitalinDeath.com)

Read entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Human-Rights-Examiner~y2009m10d16-ADHA-alert-Ritalin-children-have-500-greater-sudden-death-risk-but-FDA-silent

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Attention deficit drug Adderall implicated in sudden death of athlete

Friday, September 11th, 2009

CBS News
September 10, 2009

(CBS) A source has told CBS News that the defense team for a former football coach charged in the death of one of his players is planning to claim the amphetamine medication Adderall, prescribed for the player’s attention deficit disorder, could be to blame for his death.

Lawyers for Coach Jason Stinson, CBS News confirmed, plan to use the expert testimony of a former Kentucky medical examiner who will say Adderall is the likely cause of death.

Stinson, former coach of a Pleasure Ridge Park, Ky., school, is on trial for reckless homicide and wanton endangerment in the death of Max Gilpin. Gilpin, a 15-year-old player, collapsed during football practice while running in 94-degree heat last August. He died three days later of complications from heatstroke.

Read entire article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/10/earlyshow/main5300870.shtml

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Must Watch Video for All Parents:Critical Alert about Ritalin and Your Child

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Jenny Thompson
The Health Sciences Institute
July 22, 2009

A new study by the FDA and the National Institute of Mental Health shows that Ritalin may increase sudden death in children by 600%, yet the FDA downplayed the study’s findings.

Watch video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fMVUdYS0Mc

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