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...five drugs given to the children-most of whom are in grades one to six-are known by the brand names Ritalin, Dexedrene, Deaner, Aventil, and Tofanil. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lists all five as dangerous substances, and warns doctors to use particular care in dispensing Ritalin-a powerful stimulant-because of the danger of addiction and undesirable side effects...
...Your article on hyperkinesis ("Those Mean Little Kids") [Oct. 18] was as welcome as our son's first dose of Ritalin. It is difficult to send a child out into the day, knowing that he will charge headfirst into a multitude of unacceptable activities, as he did yesterday, as he will tomorrow. It is more difficult to know that he will be punished and ridiculed for behavior he cannot easily control. The next time I am told that I'm a nut, my doctor is a quack and my son is a brat who just needs a good...
...psychiatrists to treat them all, and most of them get no farther than the family doctor's office. Dr. Martin, a family physician, told the American Academy of General Practice what he has found works best: a daily dose of three or four tablets of methylphenidate, trade-named Ritalin by the Ciba Pharmaceutical...
...Analeptics, they all said, had been tried on patients in coma before, had proved worthless in some cases, actually harmful in others. They had unpredictable effects on the blood pressure and respiration. Even so, on the basis of animal experiments, Dr. Hoagland thought that one analeptic, methylphenidate (trade name: Ritalin), was worth...
...does methylphenidate appear to be safer than other drugs? Dr. Hoagland suspects that the answers may eventually be traced to the drug's rapid excretion from the bloodstream and into the urine. "But until we understand more about coma," says he, "we cannot hope to understand Ritalin." Meanwhile, despite such gaps in medical knowledge, Dr. Hoagland suggests that emergency rooms should take advantage of the drug's unique qualities...