Abuse Of Ritalin Causes Addiction Of Children And Adolescents

Ritalin, the commercial name of the metilfenidato, is a medicine that is prescribed to the children who show an abnormally high level of activity or which they suffer of the upheaval of hyperactivity and lack of attention (ADHD).

Also it is prescribed once in a while to treat the narcolepsy. It stimulates the central nervous system with effects similar but less powerful than those of caffeine. The behavior pattern arises generally between the 3 and 5 years and it is diagnosed in the primary school due to the excessive locomotors activity, lack of attention, or impulsive behavior.

Ritalin is a legal drug that is prescribed to small children like treatment for upheavals of lack of attention/hypercritical, its illegal use is becoming more and more popular between children and adolescents. Ritalin has similar effects to amphetamines and the cocaine, stimulating the central nervous system.

If it is taken in controlled doses, the drug can have a remarkably relajante effect in those children with upheaval of lack of attention and hyperactivity. With elevated doses more than they are not for treatment, Ritalin can cause addiction and cause serious problems of health.

The addiction to the metilfenidato seems to happen when it produces considerable and accelerated increases of dopamine in the brain. The short term effects of the abuse of Ritalin can include nervousness, insomnia, nausea, vomit, I am annoying, headache, changes in the cardiac frequency and the sanguineous pressure, salpullido, abdominal pain and psychopath’s episodes.

The long term effects can be from muscular spasmodic twitches to cardiac and respiratory anomalies that put in danger the life. The selfish take the tablets by oral route or they pulverize them and they inhale them. Some dissolve to the water tablets, injecting themselves the mixture, which can cause complications because the insoluble fillings that are in the tablets can block the thin blood vessels.

The Dependency for the Stupefacient Control (DEA) informed that Ritalin is between 10 main controlled drugs robbed. Those that do not rob the medicine, often obtain from their brothers or friends who have prescription.

Autor: Hidrocodone Para Dolores.

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