ADHD: Is It a Real Disease?
by Fred Baughman, M.D.Footnotes
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/ND99/nami.html ''Prozac.org: An influential mental health nonprofit finds its 'grassroots' watered by pharmaceutical millions,'' Ken Silverstein, November/December 1999
York Daily Record, 04/17/2000, ''National and World Briefs -- Ritalin Death Long-term Use Blamed'' Pontiac, MI -- A medical examiner says long-term use of Ritalin, a drug used to treat hyperactive children, may have led to a 14-year-old boy's death. Matthew Smith died March 21. Oakland County Medical Examiner Ljubisa Dragovic concluded that the boy died of a heart attack likely caused by 10 years of taking Ritalin.
http://www.wggb.com/healtharc/0004/health041700.htm WGGB News 40 -- Springfield, MA, Family Health Archive ''Ritalin Death?''