POSTED: 11:36 am EDT May 27, 2005
UPDATED: 11:53 am EDT May 27, 2005
Using his personal experiences as a point of reference, actor Tom Cruise is leading a crusade against prescribing anti-depressants and drugs such as Ritalin to treat children.
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Tom Cruise
"They said, 'Oh, you know, Ritalin is safe. It's safe. It's safe.' Ritalin is an amphetamine," the "War of the Worlds" star told "Access Hollywood" in an exclusive interview.
Cruise said because of his dyslexia, doctors in the 1970s wanted to put him on medication but his mother refused.
Instead, Cruise sought alternative methods of helping him with his disorder, including Study Tech learning at the Church of Scientology.
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He's now passing the study tech on to others through his work with the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project (H.E.L.P.), while continuing his push to get kids off of meds.
"SAT scores have gone right down the toilet," Cruise told "Access Hollywood" co-host Billy Bush. "The parents are blaming the teachers. The teachers are blaming the parents. OK? And the psychs are putting everyone on drugs."
MORE: Read more of Tom Cruise's exclusive interview about Scientology, Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman and more at AccessHollywood.com
6 comments:
Of course Tom Cruise but his new girl friend much better looking even more. Lucky dude.
He is right about Ritalin and other drugs. I am considering to become scientologist. Good stuff.
You know who is really uugleee and abnoxious looking, Bernard Lord. He is damn ugly inside out the way he is ignoring children on Ritalin, children who are suffering because of VLT addictons of their parents and poor and helpless children. All Bernard Lord is interested in is play his stupid petty politics. Realy ugly and repulsive man and black spot on N.B. They must stop showing his hedious face on T.V. One feels like spitting on it but that makes T.v.dirty.
I don't usually have the patience for movies but I have to watch this one!!!!
It is not a movie. I think it is lengthy interview by Access Hollywood.
Here are some reasons why Ritalin could be dangerous and must not be used indiscriminately, Lord govt does not care unfortunatle:
Ritalin Prescription Takes Life
Of 14 Year Old
"If I had heard that people are dying from Ritalin, I would have never given Matt the first pill." - Lawrence Smith whose son died from Ritalin.
Read more at:
http://www.rense.com/general25/14.htm
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Some Listed site effects:
Nervousness and insomnia are the most common adverse reactions reported with methylphenidate but are usually controlled by reducing dosage and omitting the drug in the afternoon or evening. Decreased appetite is also common but usually transient.
Central and Peripheral Nervous System:
Dizziness, drowsiness, headache, and dyskinesia may occur. Isolated cases of the following have been reported: hyperactivity, convulsions, muscle cramps, choreo-athetoid movements, tics, or exacerbation of pre-existing tics, Tourette's syndrome, and psychotic episodes including hallucinations which subsided when methylphenidate was discontinued. Psychic dependence in emotionally unstable persons has occurred rarely with chronic treatment. Although a definite causal relationship has not been established, isolated cases of transient depressed mood have been reported.
Symptoms of visual disturbances have been encountered in rare cases. Difficulties with accommodation and blurring of vision have been reported.
Cardiovascular:
Palpitations, blood pressure and pulse changes (both up and down), tachycardia, angina and cardiac arrhythmias.
Skin and/or Hypersensitivity:
Rash, pruritus, urticaria, fever, arthralgia, and alopecia. Isolated cases of exfoliative dermatitis, erythema multiforme with histopathological findings of necrotizing vasculitis, and thrombocytopenic purpura.
Hematologic:
Isolated cases of leukopenia, thrombocytopenia and anemia.
Other:
Weight loss during prolonged therapy.
In children, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, weight loss during prolonged therapy, insomnia, and tachycardia may occur more frequently; however, any of the other adverse reactions listed above may also occur. Minor retardation of growth may also occur during prolonged therapy in children
Knowing fully well the dangers of Ritalin Bernard Lord and govt refuse to do anything about it. Is this man fit to be Premier? Of course not. He must have never been elected premier in the first place. Children and their innocent lives do not matter under Lord.
His politics is more important to him as he refuses to sign daycare deal with fed worth $100 million.
I must admit that when a Premier is not concern for the safety of our children? Then we have a major problem. I give up asking them to do a study! The drugging and killing of our children in New Brunswick will continue until the next Provincial Election!!!!
Tom Cruise treats his own ADHD by SMOKING. Adult patients who suffer from the sypmptoms of ADHD use the dopamine found in nicotine to be able to focus and concentrate. Would you have America's children use an FDA approved, safe prescription drug for the treatment of ADHD, or would you rather have them to smoke and die of lung cancer???
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