Which company makes the white (undyed) version of generic Ri

SADIST!

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Let’s ALL report it!

Buy him coke. It is cheaper safer and It does the same thing and it has no dyes.

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Try lookign in the PDR, Physician’s Desk Reference— in the library or I think it might be available on-line. Also rxlist.com

I will check for both the PDR and rxlist.com.

If you are really desperate you might try dividing the contents of the Metadate CD in half, and giving your child 1 and 1/2 pills. (I realize that this is hard, as there isn’t a lot in the pill.) We did this for several weeks for my son without much luck, and finally upped him to 2 pills a day, which is the right dose for him now.

Have you tried Concerta? Like Ritalin and Metadate CD, Concerta is methylphenidate in a delivery system that is supposed to work for about 12 hours. (Infact, it is made by the same company as Ritalin.) I think the Concerta pills are white, although I’m not sure. Unlike Metadate CD, the Concerta can’t be opened.

Good luck!

Chemically pure cocaine would be a lot safer. Kyle is right. Cocaine does have medicinal benefits. The reason that it is not used is because it can’t be patented and therefore subject to price control via the market place.

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I think a good place to start would be your pharmacy but I think you already knew that. The pharmacist could tell you what you need to know and while you are there ask him to give you a list of the side effects.

DO NOT delete this.

“With the demand for Ritalin growing, we must be increasingly wary about doling out a drug that can be beneficial but is more often useless or even harmful.”
“Psychiatry has devised careful guidelines for prescribing and monitoring this sometimes-useful drug,” observes Harvard Medical School faculty member Richard Bromfield. Writing in the current issue of Priorities, a publication of the American Council on Science and Health, Bromfield warns that “the dramatic jump in Ritalin use in the past five years clearly suggests that these guidelines are being ignored and that Ritalin is being vastly overprescribed.”

Why is this happening? “Under the pressure of managed care,” Bromfield contends, “physicians are diagnosing attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder in patients and prescribing them Ritalin after interviews as short as 15 minutes. And given Ritalin’s quick action,” he adds, “some doctors even rely on the drug as a diagnostic tool, interpreting improvements in behavior or attention as proof of an underlying ADHD — and justification for continued drug use.”

Bromfield reports that “Ritalin prescribing fluctuates dramatically depending on how parents and teachers perceive ‘misbehavior’ and how tolerant they are of it. When a drug can be prescribed because one person is bothering another — a disruptive child upsetting a teacher, for example — there is clearly a danger that the drug will be abused,” he warns. “That danger only increases when the problem being treated is so vaguely defined.”

What exactly is attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder? Bromfield asserts that “ADHD exists as a disorder primarily because a committee of psychiatrists voted it so. In a valiant effort, they squeezed a laundry list of disparate symptoms into a neat package that can be handled and treated,” he observes. “Certainly, some people diagnosed with ADHD are neurologically impaired and need medication,” Bromfield concedes. “Many more people have ADHD symptoms that have nothing to do with their nervous systems and result instead from emotional distress, depression, anxiety, obsessions, or learning disabilities. For these people,” he contends, “Ritalin will likely be useless as a treatment. Taking it may post-pone more effective treatment. And it may even be harmful.” The Harvard Medical School professor warns that Ritalin “can worsen underlying anxiety, depression, psychosis, and seizures. More common but milder side effects include nervousness and sleeplessness.”

Richard Bromfield views the rush on Ritalin as symptomatic of a larger problem. “The surge in both ADHD diagnoses and Ritalin prescriptions is yet another sign of a society suffering from a colossal lack of personal responsibility,” he argues. “By telling patients that their failures, misbehavior, and unhappiness are caused by a disorder, we risk colluding with their all-too-human belief that their actions are beyond their control, and we weaken their motivation to change on their own. And, in the many cases where ADHD is misdiagnosed,” Bromfield concludes, “we give parents the illusion that their child’s problems have nothing to do with the home environment or with their performance as parents.”

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With all due respect, Laurie, don’t you think she already knows the side effects? Her child is already taking the same medication in a longer-acting form.

Andrea

I think a lot of parents are not fully aware of the side effect of stimulants particularly the most dangerous ones. It they were 8 million kids would not be medicated.

The symptoms to which the ADHD lable gets assinged causes are multi factorial. It is a know fact that stimulants get handed out like candy by far too many doctors.

As far as the allergies go they are also complex and it is extremely likely that dye is not the only allergin involved it may just be the trigger.

A responsible company would use non-allergenic dyes in their products but we are not talking about responsible companies here. We are talking about the drug companies.

concerta pills in 36mg are white, 18 and 54 mg are colored (yellow and reddish brown).
Amy

Just like M&Ms

Call your local drugstore.

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My son takes Methylin ER in the 10 mg. form (2 a day), and it is white. It is extended release and the generic for Concerta - only $8 a month - Concerta was $35 - even with our insurance plan.

It costs less than a penny a pill to make but because you are a flaming idiot you are giving it to your kids so they will be lemmings like you.

You are a stupid idiot!

Hi. I’m curious - my son is 54 lbs and takes 15 mg (3 tabs) of the gneric ritalin twice a day. We tried him on 5 mg last summer when we first started meds, and saw no effect. The dr. didn’t expect any effect at that dose. We tried 10 mg briefly, stopped it last Aug. and started him on the 15 mg in Sept. I thought it was still a low dosage. What have other preople’s drs. said?

If you don’t know that information your doctor is an *******. That is a friggin mega dose for a kid that small.

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