How do the dosage requirements for Ritalin change over long term use?

Ritalin is an amphetamine and it works directly on the central nervous system. It is presumed that it activates the brain stem arousal system to produce a stimulant effect. I say presumed because there is no definitive evidence to clearly establish this mechanism.

This pharmaceutical is used in the treatment of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) for both adults and children. Your question about increasing dosages while on Ritalin is medically known as “tolerance”. Tolerance describes the effect of needing more and more of a drug to achieve the same result from the drug.As far as tolerance is concerned, this effect is not normally noticed with these types of drugs.

Ritalin, once the optimum dosage is determined, usually does not require continual increases in dosage to achieve the same effect. Ritalin dosage is achieved according to each patient’s needs and responses. Typically a patient is placed on a low dosage that is increased over a month to find the optimum dosage for that individual.

What has been noted in children especially is that the dosage will be adjusted, as they grow older due to the physical changes that they are undergoing and not due to tolerance changes. It is rare for an adult to need to increase tolerance dosage once his or her optimum dose has been established. The way drugs are used and dispensed soon there may be this product.

Tolernace can be developed to anyting, pain for example, while its physical training to build up tolerance in that case, mental tolerance is not that much different because there is sitll a strong physical component to feel the need for it. Hydrocodone, heroin, everything. I find thru my personal experiences with my doctors prescriptions for my debilitating rhumeatoid arthritis and other diseases that a cocktail of strong stuf like for example.

I started off with hydrocodone two a day, now a year later, i'm up to 12 a day. Per doctors advice. Thats AFTER I stopped using the fentanyl patches, which leads me to beleive these man man synthetic drugs are actually worse for you than the somewhat natural ingredients found in cocaine, heroin, and psilosibin (mushrooms).

All of these have therapudic effects, even exctacsy is being shown to be therapudic within monitored sessions. People abuse everything, food, alcohol, the speed limit. Its human nature, its not the fault of the substance.

Blame human developmental issues that engraine in them to seek one step above what they already have, which leads to deaths. Why do you think they call it chasing hte dragon with opium, they chase a high they never can get. Is opium bad, a lot say yes, but even as a conservative religous person, I say no.

These substances were placed here for us to use for good, but people will always turn it into bad. How many people would have been not here now if there wasnt morphine (an opium derivative) in stuff like vietnam or more recently in the middle east iraq and the stan. STOP BLAMING THE DRUG.

Blame the poeple that CHOOSE to abuse it, everything has a completely legit purpose, peyote a hallucinogen is sacred and used in religous indiginous south american and even here in states like new mexico and general southeast, for RELIGOUS PURPOSES. There is even churches of POT, because its NATURAL. PILLS.

Made by pharmaceutical compaines to make top dollar put EXCESSIVE ammounts of acetomenaphin into nacrotics like hydrocode to dissuade poeople from abusing them, guess what, people still abuse them. And now htey are dying from the liver failure caused by too much acetomenophin . If he wants to take the risk of dying to achive a feeling of happiness, who are you or the government to tell us we cant ingest something that gives us happiness.

What was that thing about ..life..liberty.. OH YAH.. and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. Its vague, your happiness might be having a family and going to park, someone else might find happyness in getting blitzed out of their mind. WHo are thse people that htink they have some moral authority over THE WHOLE COUNTRY to tell people what kind of happiness they can pursue.

Scare tactics get seen through, increased crime, increased poverty. Sorry that will be there no matter what, losers will allways be losers, you might as well let them be happy losers. If they want help they will ask, its not your job to bardge in and tell them how to live their lives.

Remember LSD was SOOOO bad, yeah if you are an idiot and take 10x too much, yeah you might go crazy, but some people don't care. The only solution to EVER helping people get better is to EDUCATE Them on the drugs so they know exactly what the consequences are, there are lots of dead addicts out there bcause someone didn't tell them what may seem common sense to us, to not mix certain drugs. Well.

Not everyone has the internet to go look up can I combine med A and med B.. LOOK AT THE NEWS. HEALTH LEDGER, ANNA NICOLE SMITH, JIM MORRISON, JANNIS JOPLIN, JIMMI HENDRIX. And thousands more.

Because it was new on the scene and they WERNT EDUCATED about the substance. You give METHADONE to HEROIN addics and expect them to get better when in fact methadone can kill you just as fast as heroin. It makes ZERO SENSE.

WAKE UP PEOPLE. WAR ON DRUGS IS FAILED, now its a war on people by sterotyping the lower class of society. Maybee that guy on the corner likes being a bum, some of them make more money than the guy working the register at McDonalds just by pandhandling.

If ANYONE has responsiblity its the DOCTORS and the PHARMA companies to EDUCATE people. About the drugs, and to some extent they do but not nearly enough. You know half the stuff that will kill you is put in there as fillers and binders to keep addicts or high seekers away, but it doesn't work, they just end up dead.So to me its the PHARMA companies saying, we don't care about junkies or addicts, or the recrecational guy that likes to get messed up on hollidays.

If hes going to take them how he wasnt told, he deserves to die. Theres are humans, with souls, they might look like a shambled central park bench living bum. But he has a story of strife, suffering and childhood memories and not all of them bad.

TREAT THE PERSON AS A WHOLE, we are more than just a set of symptoms, look up indian practice of ayervada (spelled it wrong) they treat every aspect of the person from massages and counseling, to heal mind, body and soul not just shove medication down their throat and hope it goes away. Once again.. WAKE UP. Its not the cold war, reagan is dead(sad, not a slander).

Times are changing, we know more about medicine and the great therapudic benefits of some drugs that are taboo because tendency to be abused.. well my friend. Its not a shocker, in a society of abundant consumption of EVERYTHING. The FATTEST most OBESE society IN THE WORLD.

You don't see people banning mcdonalds for killing people. Why doesn't the DEA go after the corporate franchise lobbyists that go to washington to make sure they can put as many chemicals in their food as possible that actually makes you MORE hungry after you eat. High fructose corn syrup, no thanks.

Oh wait I cat help it, ITS IN EVERYTHING YOU INGEST. TREAT THE POEPLE not the drug, the only reason a person does abuse drugs is because two reasons, either he just likes to get high, hurt nobody and have a good time. Or hes got serious life issues that led him there.

The second one we should be adressing with teh drug war money, there WILL ALWAYS BE SUPPLY as long as you DONT treat the underlying conditions as a whole. What good is it to get 100 tons of cocaine out of miami when tommorow 200 tons will come in and not get detected. You gotta kill the DEMAND, NOT THE SUPPLY.

And right now, DEA, homeland, whoever else is involved, are going after the supply. Which is impossible to win, shut down one guy. His brother builds a lab farther in the forest.

YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THEIR MENTAL STRATAGEMS so they don't want to buy it, then when there is no demand, the supply will go away. South americans arent idiots, they know theres no point in flooding a market when nobody wants your product. Theres a GOOD REASON america is the ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD that lets pharmaceutical companies advertise and market DIRECTLY to the whole country via TV SPOTS, eveyrone sees them.

I really don't care to see commericals about an old man that is happy cause he can get an erection. That should stay between him and his doctor, and if its that good, word of mouth will make up any revenue direct marketing tv adds bring in. Yes there are dangers, meth labs explode (because people that do it and make it are usualy strung out and mis step somewhere and its over) you know what?

I'm sure hes tought afew people his tricks that will take his spot, broken record here, but you don't just arrest him. Because in prison its a school for criminals, he will get out, and know more about his trade than when he went in. TREAT THE UNDERLYING CAUSE OF WHY THEY WANT TO DO THESE THINGS, give them alternative solutions.

Why bust your butt for 8+ hours a day farming or doing retail slug work for minimum wage when you can take a few hours and within a month make a whole years salary. People will do whatever it takes to feed their family. Its not a personal problem its a societal problem of people not having safety needs that prevent people from becoming that desperate, sure there are gonna be people with no motive, plenty of cash, rich upbringing that want to do it for the thrill, but thats a vast minority.

ITS NOT THE 80s , war on drugs is the biggest waste of money. Look at the 80s contra scandal. CIA was actually involved in the drug trade at one point, think this is bull?

LOOK it up and proove me wrong.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.