Fda Holds Off On Heart Warnings For Adhd Medicines

[+EdwardGlen]

fyi; How many children must die before the government steps into the 21st century and excepts and recognizes Cannabis as a true miracle of medicine.

 

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

- Beaumont and Fletcher

 

 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/?ps=sh_hdshots

 

Steady as you go on ADHD medicines.

 

The Food and Drug Administration has finally received data from a massive analysis of health records to tease out whether there is a link between normal use of ADHD medicines and potentially lethal heart problems. And, for now, the FDA says it's not recommending any changes in safety instruction or use of such popular meds as Vyvanse and Adderall.

 

The agency has been looking at a possible link between the drugs for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and sudden cardiac death in otherwise healthy people since 2009, when a federally funded study suggested there might be one.

 

The study that sparked concern compared ADHD drug use among 564 young people (ages 7 to 19) who died suddenly from unexplained causes with an identical number killed in car crashes. Ten of the young people who died suddenly were taking ADHD meds compared with just two in the group who died in accidents. Those results were published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

 

 

The agency noted a bunch of limitations with the research at the time and told parents not to stop kids' ADHD meds. Still, the agency said it would look into the issue.

 

In search of a more definitive answer, the FDA and the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality teamed up to sponsor a look at health data for more than 500,000 people taking ADHD meds and 1 million people who weren't. Analysts also planned to pore over about 2,000 medical charts from hundreds of different hospitals.

 

The work took a lot longer than expected. So the preliminary findings, originally due in late 2009, have finally rolled in. The FDA has started reviewing them and doesn't seem worried. In a brief update online, the agency said:

 

At this time, FDA is not recommending any changes to the drug labels and/or the use of these medications.

 

FDA will update the public after the results of the final analyses are evaluated.

 

The current instructions for ADHD drugs, which are stimulants, say that misusing them "may cause sudden death and serious cardiovascular adverse events."

[MORE COWBELL]

OF COURSE!

BECAUSE... IT WOULD OPEN THE FLOODGATES OF LITIGATION! STOCK PRICES WOULD ERODE IN THE PHARMA SECTOR-MANY IN POSITIONS OF POWER WOULD FEEL THE PINCH AND TRANSFER THEIR SUFFERING TO THE POOR AND DOWNTRODDEN-as our children suffer the consequences of Ritalin, Adderall and other brain candies which will not manifest till the damage is long done- and Big Pharma's have passed legislation to protect themselves

[Mememe]

FDA will update the public after the results of the final analyses are evaluated.

aKa

After the autopsies are completed.

[rafaeltoral]

Adderall is pretty much speed and a mood stabilizer. Not terribly surprising that it can blow your heart up.

 

I know all sorts of people who like to snort this crap.

[JimD]

Which medicine would you trust, the one with 5,000 years of safe use or the one with less than 50?

[JimD]

Incidentally, the lack of serious side effects from the compounds in mj that act on dopamine has pharma scrambling to complete research on treatments for adhd, parkinsons and tourettes using those same compounds.

It really is a shame that our nation's supreme court saw fit to remove so much transparency from the funding of campaigns. I bet you'd find their money behind a lot of the anti mmj propaganda out there.

[+EdwardGlen]

Incidentally, the lack of serious side effects from the compounds in mj that act on dopamine has pharma scrambling to complete research on treatments for adhd, parkinsons and tourettes using those same compounds.

It really is a shame that our nation's supreme court saw fit to remove so much transparency from the funding of campaigns. I bet you'd find their money behind a lot of the anti mmj propaganda out there.

 

On a side note. The Partnership For A Drug Free America besides tax payer monies is funded largely by tobacco, big pharma, and alcohol manufacturers, they have lost all credibility and tax payer funding should be pulled immediately.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnership_for_a_Drug-Free_America

 

PDFA was the subject of criticism when it was revealed by Cynthia Cotts of the Village Voice that their federal tax returns showed that they had received several million dollars worth of funding from major pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol corporations including American Brands (Jim Beam whiskey), Philip Morris (Marlboro and Virginia Slims cigarettes, Miller beer), Anheuser Busch (Budweiser, Michelob, Busch beer), R.J. Reynolds (Camel, Salem, Winston cigarettes), as well as pharmaceutical firms Bristol Meyers-Squibb, Merck & Company and Procter & Gamble. From 1997 it has discontinued any direct(?) fiscal association with tobacco and alcohol suppliers, although it still receives donations from pharmaceutical companies[2].

[JimD]

Hehehe...no "direct fiscal association". Get used to that phrase in the game of policy and politics after the Citizens United decision.