Re: 8. DR STEVEN E HYMAN

[Guest guest]

OH NO !!! NOT HIM NOW AS WELL...

Steph

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> " ...The previous director, Dr. Hyman, a neuroscientist who is

> an expert in how psychotropic drugs work, published articles noting

> that repeated exposure to stimulant drugs leads to addiction and

> alterations in gene expression: Hyman SE: " Initiation and

> adaptation: a paradigm for understanding psychotropic drug action, "

> Am J Psychiatry 1996; 153:151-162 Yet, Dr. Hyman endorsed a Ritalin

> experiment that is being conducted on toddlers... "

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> http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/0902/30.php

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> Ritalin Outrage: Congress_ Big Media Under the Influence of Big Drugs

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> September 30, 2002

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> Two hard hitting editorials--one by Regush of

> Redflagsweekly.com. the other by Tony DiGirolamo of CutureShockTV.com

> focus on the scorge of Ritalin and the victimization of millions of

> children who are pushed to becoming addicted to drugs because of

> irresponsible public policies motivated by greed.

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> Despite the fact that the DEA has evidence showing that Ritalin is

> the number 2 drug illegally sold in our schools today,Ritalin pushers

> continue to claim it is non-addictive. Regush notes: " This is a

> crisis that should erupt as large in scale as the ongoing interest in

> CEOs of major corporations. "

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> Yet, save Congressman Dan Burton, Congress has been asleep. When

> pressed by Burton at a hearing (prompted by a series in The NY Post),

> the pushers of Ritalin demurred, acknowledging that a problem exists,

> but pretending they haven't a clue about how to tackle the problem.

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> Regush calls CHADD (Children And Adults with ADHD) " loathsome "

> and " despicable. " CHADD is the largest of Ritalin's promotional

> groups that acknowledges getting $1 million from drug companies. Dr.

> K. Nakamura, the new director of the National Institute of

> Mental Health (NIMH) could only bring himself to mutter that a

> problem exists--but failed to call for any measures to contain the

> problem. http://www.redflagsweekly.com/regush/2002_sept30.html

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> The previous director, Dr. Hyman, a neuroscientist who is an

> expert in how psychotropic drugs work, published articles noting that

> repeated exposure to stimulant drugs leads to addiction and

> alterations in gene expression: Hyman SE: " Initiation and adaptation:

> a paradigm for understanding psychotropic drug action, " Am J

> Psychiatry 1996; 153:151-162 Yet, Dr. Hyman endorsed a Ritalin

> experiment that is being conducted on toddlers.

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> DiGirolamo blasts the major media for ignoring the Ritalin issue as

> well. He blames the undue influence by big pharmaceutical companies

> since they have been allowed to advertise in the media. Their

> advertising dollars ensure that the major media soft-pedals the

> problem.

> http://www.cultureshocktv.com/internews/2002/sep14200203352.shtml He

> cites an example that aired on NBC4 in which at least 11 high school

> students were recently hospitalized for Ritalin overdose. Authorities

> confiscated at least 150 pills from a 14 year old.

> http://www.nbc4.tv/news/1663027/detail.html

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> An example of soft-peddling by the press, is a recent Newsday story

> by Talan. Her uncritical description of the Ritalin experiment

> on toddlers--an experiment that some categorize as addiction by

> design--failed to address any of the problematic issues. Talan's

> article put such a favorable spin on irresponsible tinkering with

> little children's brains, that it could have been written by one of

> the investigators who usually fail to acknowledge their financial

> contracts with drug companies. See:

> http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405023453,00.html?

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> When future generations of Americans examine the irresponsible

> drugging policies and the harm done to children's developing brains

> and emotional development, they will cringe at this man-made outrage.

> They will recoil from this legacy of shame--as did the offspring of

> the Nazi generation who recoiled from the silent complicity of their

> parents and grandparents. "

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