Daily Archives: September 4, 2015


Ritalin and the Growth Hormone

In 1977, a Norwegian team of researchers led by D. Daarskog demonstrated abnormal growth hormone responses to clinical doses of Dexedrine and Ritalin: The findings indicate an acute and probable long-term effect of dextroamhetamine and methylphenidate on the homeostasis of growth hormone. The possible long-term effects of these drugs on the growth of children indicates the need for caution in the widespread use of these agents. *********************************** In […]


How Ritalin Really Works

If a parent forced a child to take alcohol, a depressant, in the mistaken belief that he was curing a chemical imbalance  in the child’s brain, we would not hesitate to have the child removed from home  Yet millions of children are forced to take mind-altering drugs in the equally mistaken belief that depression and other mental illnesses are biologically caused, for which there is not a shred […]