{"id":203,"date":"2009-07-28T07:38:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=203"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:46","slug":"stimulant-use-linked-to-sudden-death-in-pediatric-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/28\/stimulant-use-linked-to-sudden-death-in-pediatric-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Stimulant Use Linked to Sudden Death in Pediatric Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span><\/p>\n<p id=\"authors\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/705158?src=emailthis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span id=\"pPub\"><em>Medscape Psychiatry &amp; Mental Health<\/em>,  2009-07-02<\/span><\/span><\/a> Robert L. Findling, MD,\u00c2\u00a007\/02\/2009, from the article: Gould MS,  Walsh BT, Munfakh JL, et al. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ajp.psychiatryonline.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/appi.ajp.2009.09040472v1?maxtoshow=&amp;HITS=10&amp;hits=10&amp;RESULTFORMAT=&amp;fulltext=Gould+MS%2C+Walsh+BT%2C+Munfakh+JL%2C+et+al.+Sudden+death+and+use+of+stimulant+medicat&amp;searchid=1&amp;FIRSTINDEX=0&amp;sortspec=relevance&amp;resourcetype=HWCIT\">Sudden  death and use of stimulant medications in youths<\/a>&#8221; Am J Psychiatry Jun 15,  2009.<\/p>\n<p>Quotes from the original study published in the American Journal of  Psychiatry:<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;A significant association of stimulant use [primarily methylphenidate  (Ritalin)] with sudden unexplained death emerged from the primary  analysis&#8230;This case-control study provides support for an association between  the use of stimulants and sudden unexplained death among children and  adolescents.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">[Editorial Comment: We think that giving a child Ritalin  is like playing Russian Roulette with the gun pointed at your child&#8217;s head.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Recognize that the real problem is that psychiatrists fraudulently diagnose  life&#8217;s problems as an &#8220;illness&#8221;, and stigmatize unwanted behavior\u00c2\u00a0as<span> a <\/span>&#8220;disease.&#8221; Psychiatry&#8217;s stigmatizing labels,  programs and treatments are harmful junk science; their diagnoses of &#8220;mental  disorders&#8221; are a hoax &#8211; unscientific, fraudulent and harmful. All psychiatric  treatments, not just psychiatric drugs, are dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Watch the video documentary <a title=\"Making A Killing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cchr.org\/#\/videos\/making-a-killing-introduction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Making A Killing &#8211; The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stimulant Use Linked to Sudden Death in Pediatric Patients <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/28\/stimulant-use-linked-to-sudden-death-in-pediatric-patients\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-3h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}