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RF> RF> Well, what happened to mine then.  I didn't smoke, didn't drink and
RF> RF> plenty of exercise.  I ate pretty good too.  Now that I have
RF> RF> I drink <GRIN>.  Well goes to show you why so far they are comming up
RF>with
RF> RF> theories on how it happened.
RF> any doctors that don't take a full history before they dispense
RF> have a problem (including a potential lawsuit).  My son Jonathon was on
RF> Ritalin for half a school year.  For reasons I won't go into he was taken
RF> off (my request).  It worked fine for him.  One question I would like to
RF> ask is:  If the family has a history of alcoholism what can the
RF> do?  How will it hurt them?  Or will it not work for them?  I believe my
RF> children have it because they inherited it.  I have a daughter who is
RF> a manic depressant.  She is 22 now.  Her father has something wrong with
RF> his brain and I believe his sister may have been ADHD.  I knew her since
RF> she was 3 and she is now 25.  Also his brother could have been.  He was
RF> very intelligent, very hyper and ended up on drugs and in prison.  Always
RF> depressed and insecure.  Since ADHD is inherited, I feel (no facts as
RF> that the use of alcohol and drugs are an outcome of ADHD.  Possibly
RF>alcoholism
RF> is also an outcome of learned experience and environment passed on from
RF> generation to generation.  Lets face it if a child is reared in a home
RF> someone drinks beer, even in moderation, smokes cigarretts or takes
RF> that child is more apt to do the same thing.  Even if they are not ADHD
RF> may see their parent who is, drink beer to forget their troubles and they
RF> learn that when they have problems they drinking beer will help them
RF> My daughter was a alcohol abuser.  I've learned there are two types of
RF> alcohol problems.  One is abuse--which the person can stop and/or learn
RF>drink
RF> moderately and the other is dependency-which they can not (This is what
RF> doctors I knew considered alcoholism).  So what type are they talking

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There are families without any history of alcoholism who have ADD.
Those families will respond to the Ritalin and there is no reason why
they should not take it.
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THat sounds like a typical family history profile as I have heard them.
The various members get different things.
Ritalin will lead to dependence in these folks and won't work. That is
why it should not be used.
Consider that alcoholism is on one end of the spectrum, the bipolar
disorder on the other, and ADHD and some other problems are in
between,all in the same genetic string.
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The twin studies disprove this.  They were originally done in Europe and
ahve been done here also.  What is confusing you is that this does run
in families and that they will tend to have drugs around to fix a lousy
brain chemistry that doesnt work as the one for normal folks does.
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No alcoholic drinks anything cold slowly.  They will gulp.
Even soda pop or iced tea goes down rapidly.
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