You know, I keep saying that ADD is really a disease of capitalism. If you weren’t expected to perform 24/7 at peak efficiency, you wouldn’t need crap like this:
BOSTON (MarketWatch)-Eli Lilly said early Thursday that at the request of the Food and Drug Administration, it is adding a warning to the label of its attention-deficit drug Stattera advising it may trigger suicidal thoughts in some children and adolescents.
Lilly (LLY: news, chart, profile) said it was adding the warning after an analysis requested by the Food and Drug Administration of previous clinical data showed 0.4% of the children who took the drug experienced suicidal thoughts. The analysis also showed that no such thinking was reported amongst children who took a placebo.
Strattera, also called atomoxetine HCl, is used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, in children, teenagers, and adults.
Isn’t that one of the 17 medications that Dubya is on?
well those kids better get used to suicidal ideation anyway because this world is sooo fucked up, they’ll be wanting to off themselves their whole lives.
and if they do off themselves, well, they wouldn’t have made very good workers. they’d just be a drain on the system.
Point 4%, and it’s the only one of the ADHD drugs that is not a stimulant? I’ll take those odds.
America is the only place in the world where you can drive down the street of a suburban community and see signs with four foot lettering reading DRUGS Admission of Error is not Concession to Defeat: Reconsidering America’s The War on Drugs, me, ‘93
Having been doped when I was a kid (the fifties) - Ritalin - I’ve got real issues with doping children. Having raised four ADD diagnosed children alone, whom I refused to dope (even under the threat of legal action, at which point I let them drop out. Didn’t hurt ‘em any, as they’re all in college now), I don’t see it so much as a deficit as a lack of discipline. We have to train our minds, we have to train young minds, to pay closer attention, and drugs just don’t facilitate that. ‘Oft times it seems to me to be just another excuse, like blaming ‘god’ for excessive consumption of alcohol - but then again, I didn’t believe in addiction until I tried to quit tobacco.
Note on Ritalin: upon diagnosis of my narcolopsy twenty years ago I was once again prescribed Ritalin, a prescription I’ve never filled. I can cope without drugs, though it took some training and continues to require some discipline.
hmmm. perhaps increased attention leads to increased awareness….