Re: Wonderful article on ADD Medication (Long)

[Anonymous]

For those of you like me who hate reading long articles, he is a good summary of the safety of these drugs…

The following probabilities help place these risks in perspective

Annual risk per 100,000 persons or patients :

Adults without high blood pressure, psychostimulant fatalities, 0.05/100,000

Adult psychostimulant fatalities, 0.125/100,000

Psychostimulant fatalities per patient, (includes children),0.18/100,000

Psychostimulant adverse cardiac events, (includes children),0.56/100,000

Being struck by lightning, 4.2/100,000

Viagra fatalities per patient, 5.0/100,000

Auto travel fatality risk, 16/100,000 NSAID Deaths per arthritis patient, 38.3/100,000

(aspirin, Motrin, Advil, Feldene, Clinoril, Indocin, Daypro, Aleve, etc.)

Fatalities/acetaminophen(Tylenol) overdose, 360/100,000

Auto property damage collision, 10,000/100,000

Data and annual risk probabilities, for the preceding table and chart were derived from the following sources: Between 1999 and 2003, 25 people had died suddenly, and 54 suffered serious cardiac events such as a stroke, heart attack, hypertension or arrhythmia, while taking psychostimulant medications. http://www.healthyskepticism.org/library/ref.php

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