Posted by francesco on December 27, 2004, at 14:53:13
In reply to Re: A little message to Francesco, posted by ed_uk on December 27, 2004, at 8:37:22
The ritalin situation here is bizarre. Yes, we don’t have ritalin on the market, because Novartis decided in 1989 not to sell it anymore in Italy (very long story: basically the profits of MF are very low while the opposition toward it was very strong). Of course adhd children didn’t stop being adhd in 1989 and this produced a weird situation. You have to go to a doctor specialized in adhd that import somehow Ritalin from Switzerland. But here adhd is not very well known, even by most psychiaytrists, so if you’re an adult your chances to know that you may have adhd and having stimulants prescribed can be very very low.
The things are changing I think, Ritalin should be very soon on the market again but for having it prescribed you have to follow a very complex schedule, giving your name and so on, and I’m just talking about children ! Anyway I hope that this will contribute to make more people aware of the existence of this disturb even if the debate's level is usually not more higher that this: “They want to drug our children, adhd is just another american thing like macdonald’s ;-)”.
poster:francesco
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