scuro
05-07-05, 01:08 AM
NOT!
Did you actually think that one scientific paper could prove anything with regards to adhd? That is simply not how science works. A single experiment will never settle any important debate with regards to adhd.
The methods and findings must be made public so that other Scientists may critically study the results. A hypothesis edges towards acceptance when many scientists replicate the initial findings and do further studies to look at other possibilities. Yet board members post single scientific studies and draw what is typically faulty conclusions because they have no basic understanding of what science is really all about.
A case in point. The following conclusion with a link was recently posted.
"Long term amphetamine usage is neurotoxic and WILL be detrimental to the health of a child"..........
http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/99-10-26-02.all.html
"While previous studies show that acute amphetamine injections can impair cognition, our report is the first to demonstrate long lasting-over two years-and possibly permanent cognitive deficits induced by a brief period of intermittent low-dose amphetamine exposure,"
If you know anything about drugs you know that ingesting drugs and injecting drugs create two dramatically different outcomes in a subject. Yet here we have a study about drug abusers in which the conclusions were drawn by injecting Amphetamines into Primates. The board member then suggests that drugs like Ritalin maybe NUROTOXIC?!?!?? Sure it's a possiblity. That study was done in 1999 and you would hope to see further studies replicating the findings and then further studies relating it to adhd, if you were trying to come to a conclusion about Ritalin.
And just for you parents who are worried now about the study, McTavish23 has said. "THE US SURGEON GENERALS REPORT ON MENTAL HEALTH:CHAPTER 3(DISORDERS OF INFANCY, CHILDHOOD & ADOLESCENCE ) has the most complete history of the use of stimulants to treat behavior problems that I've seen. It goes all the way back to the original medication study done by a Rhode Island physician names Bradley in 1937. You can also find that mentioned in You Mean Im Not Lazy, Stupid Or Crazy? and Taking Charge of ADHD.
To quote Dr Barkley, "Stimulants are the most benign drugs in psychiatry." He also said that the "only" was a person with ADHD can become addictive to Ritalin (which remember isn't an amphetamine) is by grinding it and snorting it. THAT CHANGES THE METHOD OF DELIVERY".
Did you actually think that one scientific paper could prove anything with regards to adhd? That is simply not how science works. A single experiment will never settle any important debate with regards to adhd.
The methods and findings must be made public so that other Scientists may critically study the results. A hypothesis edges towards acceptance when many scientists replicate the initial findings and do further studies to look at other possibilities. Yet board members post single scientific studies and draw what is typically faulty conclusions because they have no basic understanding of what science is really all about.
A case in point. The following conclusion with a link was recently posted.
"Long term amphetamine usage is neurotoxic and WILL be detrimental to the health of a child"..........
http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/99-10-26-02.all.html
"While previous studies show that acute amphetamine injections can impair cognition, our report is the first to demonstrate long lasting-over two years-and possibly permanent cognitive deficits induced by a brief period of intermittent low-dose amphetamine exposure,"
If you know anything about drugs you know that ingesting drugs and injecting drugs create two dramatically different outcomes in a subject. Yet here we have a study about drug abusers in which the conclusions were drawn by injecting Amphetamines into Primates. The board member then suggests that drugs like Ritalin maybe NUROTOXIC?!?!?? Sure it's a possiblity. That study was done in 1999 and you would hope to see further studies replicating the findings and then further studies relating it to adhd, if you were trying to come to a conclusion about Ritalin.
And just for you parents who are worried now about the study, McTavish23 has said. "THE US SURGEON GENERALS REPORT ON MENTAL HEALTH:CHAPTER 3(DISORDERS OF INFANCY, CHILDHOOD & ADOLESCENCE ) has the most complete history of the use of stimulants to treat behavior problems that I've seen. It goes all the way back to the original medication study done by a Rhode Island physician names Bradley in 1937. You can also find that mentioned in You Mean Im Not Lazy, Stupid Or Crazy? and Taking Charge of ADHD.
To quote Dr Barkley, "Stimulants are the most benign drugs in psychiatry." He also said that the "only" was a person with ADHD can become addictive to Ritalin (which remember isn't an amphetamine) is by grinding it and snorting it. THAT CHANGES THE METHOD OF DELIVERY".