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(Some Guy)   Researchers: "Um--know how we diagnosed all those kids with ADHD and gave 'em Ritalin? Oops--Ritalin doesn't help ADHD, although it does stunt their growth. No hard feelings?"   (ecanadanow.com) divider line
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Boritom
2007-11-14 8:49:08 PM  
Naw, no hard feelings at all... Here, let me reach up and punch you in the junk!
 
amazing_live_seamonkeys
2007-11-14 9:46:46 PM  
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UberDave [OhFark]
2007-11-14 10:09:55 PM  
No wonder all the recent college grads look like Munchkins.
 
Chariset [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2007-11-14 10:13:01 PM  
I've always wanted to be a giantess
 
CraicBaby [OhFark]
2007-11-14 10:37:40 PM  
RTFA much, submitter? It doesn't say Ritalin doesn't work at all. It just says that it doesn't change kids' behavior in the long term.
 
whatshisname [TotalFark]
2007-11-14 11:39:07 PM  
That research is bullsh....ooh, look! Shiny!!!
 
KrispyKringle
2007-11-14 11:43:20 PM  
Damn scientists. How dare they revise their theories in light of further evidence. This is why evolution and global warming are just big frauds!
 
Hagbardr
2007-11-14 11:45:12 PM  
I'm 5' 7", so I'm really getting... Hey! Let's ride bikes.
 
xria
2007-11-14 11:45:25 PM  
On the plus side, Phil Collins sold a lot more albums and concert tickets.
 
infantry
2007-11-14 11:46:57 PM  
i approve of taking amphetamines for made up illnesses
 
mkfreeberg
2007-11-14 11:47:20 PM  
CraicBaby: RTFA much, submitter? It doesn't say Ritalin doesn't work at all. It just says that it doesn't change kids' behavior in the long term.

Um...and so the point of the exercise would be?

/not subby
 
Open_Mouth_Inert_Foot
2007-11-14 11:53:12 PM  
wait, wait, I might have been 7 feet tall if my folks hadn't stuck me on that stuff, i'm torn, it'd be cool to be that much taller,but at 6'7" it sucks alot to live with all you short people.

/all the good cars are for you height impaired people
 
InternetLOL
2007-11-14 11:55:48 PM  
Open_Mouth_Inert_Foot

You might call me height-impaired, but we'll see who Darwin favors when the birds come.
 
Bacontastesgood
2007-11-14 11:56:55 PM  
You mean these sleeping pills only help me sleep TONIGHT, and won't cure insomnia long-term, and they may have side effects? ZOMG useless!!!
 
12349876
2007-11-14 11:57:01 PM  
Which one of you farkers did the photoshop in the article?

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Open_Mouth_Inert_Foot
2007-11-14 11:59:16 PM  
InternetLOL: Open_Mouth_Inert_Foot

You might call me height-impaired, but we'll see who Darwin favors when the birds come.

mm, roasted bird
 
overlord
2007-11-15 12:01:53 AM  
Ritalin only treats the symptoms so of course there's no long term effect. It's like complaining that your eyes haven't improved after wearing contact lenses for several years.
 
Odd Bird
2007-11-15 12:04:25 AM  
ahem...

NO SHIAT!
(farkin' quick fix society...)

/I don't taste like chicken
 
Tchiak
2007-11-15 12:08:39 AM  
Infantry:i approve of taking amphetamines for made up illnesses

Always easier to believe things are made up when your not afflicted with them. While I'm in danger of sounding like a troll, I do wish people would think about what they say. Have you lived or even been friends with someone who is trully ADD? I'm not talking about one of the people who have been grossly overdiagnosed, so the teachers don't have to deal with asshole kids. I'm talking about the kid that would love nothing better than to be like everyone else during school. To be able to interact gracefully and to get good grades. ADD may seem like a joke to you, but to those who are living with it.. trust me.. it's no joke.
/Clinically Diagnosed ADD 1996 at 13 yrs of age.
//Middle School was hell
///College is awesome
 
iaazathot
2007-11-15 12:08:45 AM  
I am sure the pharmaceutical companies will revise their marketing to reflect this change.....oh who am I kidding, they will lie like rugs and push their surpluses.
 
nobodyUwannaknow
2007-11-15 12:09:00 AM  
overlord: Ritalin only treats the symptoms so of course there's no long term effect. It's like complaining that your eyes haven't improved after wearing contact lenses for several years.

Especially if contact lenses could make your vision worse.
 
nonsequitor
2007-11-15 12:15:45 AM  
overlord: Ritalin only treats the symptoms so of course there's no long term effect. It's like complaining that your eyes haven't improved after wearing contact lenses for several years.

I was on ritalin for 7 years, and it works very well. I decided to stop taking it 5 years ago for personal reasons, and because I've always seen ritalin as a crutch, something to help heal and be cast off later. I would definitely say I'm better able to cope with ADD on my own because of the experience, but it's not easy and it takes massive amounts of mental discipline.

/I know, reasoned responses have no place... ooo shiny!
 
guttermedic
2007-11-15 12:18:36 AM  
FTFA"Researchers found drugs such as Ritalin and Concerta do work well for short term, but no do offer improvement in a children's behaviour after three years."

Grammar - it's not just for term papers anymore.
 
Sum Dum Gai
2007-11-15 12:44:35 AM  
Jesus, does the author have ADD? guttermedic beat me to the best sentence of the article (and shame on you for not pointing out "a children's behavior"!), but that whole thing is a gold mine of poor grammar.

I think should take up a punctuation collection for the grammatically poor. From now on I pledge to give one-tenth of all my commas and apostrophes to the grammatically needy, and hope and pray you will all do the same.

Please think how your life has been blessed with punctuation, and then consider that there are those less fortunate, who can't even manage a single period while you're extravagantly throwing around ellipses like they were nothing.
 
daychilde
2007-11-15 12:51:31 AM  
Subby is a moran and didn't RTFA.
 
RockIsDead
2007-11-15 1:11:26 AM  
And cocaine cures inconfidence.
 
drjekel_mrhyde
2007-11-15 1:13:32 AM  
Tchiak: Infantry:i approve of taking amphetamines for made up illnesses

Always easier to believe things are made up when your not afflicted with them. While I'm in danger of sounding like a troll, I do wish people would think about what they say. Have you lived or even been friends with someone who is trully ADD? I'm not talking about one of the people who have been grossly overdiagnosed, so the teachers don't have to deal with asshole kids. I'm talking about the kid that would love nothing better than to be like everyone else during school. To be able to interact gracefully and to get good grades. ADD may seem like a joke to you, but to those who are living with it.. trust me.. it's no joke.
/Clinically Diagnosed ADD 1996 at 13 yrs of age.
//Middle School was hell
///College is awesome

I know a kid who mother refuse to get him help for his ADHD but he busted his head on each side twice in one day (the second time was at the hospital)I fear that the State will take him from her
 
Victoly
2007-11-15 1:21:17 AM  
Chariset: I've always wanted to be a giantess

So how you doin'?
 
drjekel_mrhyde
2007-11-15 1:21:22 AM  
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Victoly
2007-11-15 1:23:39 AM  
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botsects
2007-11-15 1:44:46 AM  
amazing_live_seamonkeys: HA HA GUY

Nice one. I don't know what it is but The Quaker really compliments that one.

/He compliments almost every phrase but still...
 
KellyX
2007-11-15 1:45:06 AM  
12349876: Which one of you farkers did the photoshop in the article?

Actually looks like something I saw on one of SomethingAwful's photoshop phriday's...
 
Ishidan
2007-11-15 2:00:08 AM  
So, you're saying that Ritalin was a short-term solution, but because of short-sightedness, all these kids got short-changed?
 
lumber_of_the_beast
2007-11-15 2:21:13 AM  
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I Like Bread
2007-11-15 2:55:09 AM  
Ishidan: So, you're saying that Ritalin was a short-term solution, but because of short-sightedness, all these kids got short-changed?

That's the short of it. Now this half-hearted apology seems a day late and a dollar short.
 
Ishidan
2007-11-15 3:02:07 AM  
I Like Bread 2007-11-15 02:55:09 AM
That's the short of it. Now this half-hearted apology seems a day late and a dollar short.

Great. Now, Ritalin is what we used for kids with short attention spans. If I was them, right now I'd be feeling a bit short-tempered.
 
doglover
2007-11-15 3:07:35 AM  
Ishidan

Way ahead of you. It's time track down everyone whose made so much as a dime off ritalin and whack 'em in the junk with a baseball bat.
Just gotta get out the old baseball bat.
Hey, look! It's a baseball bat!
Who wants to play baseball?
 
No_47
2007-11-15 4:29:58 AM  
At least the junkies have something to shoot up when they run out of smack
 
phillydrifter
2007-11-15 6:53:52 AM  
Something tells me this will make page 37 of your local newspaper, in small print, cut off after a half a paragraph and continued on some page you can't find.

As long as big pharma gets their money, who cares if the kids were misdiagnosed?
 
greenbluestar
2007-11-15 7:21:05 AM  
How many ADD kids does it take to change a light bulb??

Lets ride bikes!!

/my deepest apologies...
//Ritalin made me depressed
///No more ADHD drugs for me.
 
Lurkerbunny
2007-11-15 7:56:23 AM  
I was misdiagnosed with ADHD in middle school... they put me on Ritalin and it farked me up worse than I was before. It made me MORE hyperactive. So they took me off the stuff and rediagnosed me.

/now I'm officially an Aspie. With depression.
 
feba
2007-11-15 8:13:00 AM  
I could've told you that when I was twelve.


Except the short part. Stunted growth is always funny.


And I'm taller than my parents, so I could care less.
 
kenwastinger
2007-11-15 8:26:13 AM  
What about when you're in college, and taking a fat gagger of it up the nose?
 
JinxedLynx
2007-11-15 10:08:02 AM  
FTFA: "I think that we exaggerated the beneficial impact of medication in the first study," Pelham told BBC.

Ya, think? Maybe you should have been doing more researching before releasing the drug?
 
agsfark
2007-11-15 10:11:19 AM  
The Websense category "Malicious Web Sites" is filtered.

The corporate overlords in the pharmaceutical industry have already gotten to them.

EVERYONE TO THE SAFE HOUSE!
 
h0tsauce
2007-11-15 10:49:27 AM  
All I know is, I can't do my job without my amphetamines.
 
Mighty Tighty Whitey
2007-11-15 11:23:16 AM  
Someone thought there were Long Term Benefits with it?
Wow...
I'm no doctor, but I never even thought it'd help me get 'better'.
 
Mighty Tighty Whitey
2007-11-15 11:25:22 AM  
"The children (taking the medication) weren't growing as much as other kids both in terms of their height and in terms of their weight,"
You can't eat for the whole day and they NOW figured out that that makes you smaller?

Thanks cpt. Obvious and the D'uh Squad....
 
Cato
2007-11-15 12:00:17 PM  
What people today call "ADD" is what people used to call "bad behavior." Selfish parents => children with no discipline => out of control kids => Medicate the life out of them => profit! (for big pharma).

Why anyone thought drugging children was an appropriate response to bad parenting is beyond me.
 
NightSteel
2007-11-15 12:18:54 PM  
Oddly, I was on Ritalin as a kid, and I'm 6'4. Guess there are exceptions.
 
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