Posted by mtdewcmu on March 27, 2011, at 16:58:02
In reply to Re: Amphetamine Use Linked To Parkinson's Disease, posted by linkadge on March 1, 2011, at 10:36:46
Where are you getting the information that the study dealt with amphetamine use in ADHD? It's not safe to conclude that because it excluded use in obesity that the rest of it was mainly for ADHD. Amphetamines were easy to obtain for any use until at least the 1970s (I tried to find more specific dates, but the Google results seemed to contradict each other and I don't have a book handy), and they were widely used by the military up through the Vietnam War. So I would not attribute the bulk of the non-obesity use to ADHD. Plus, I think that widespread prescribing of amphetamines for ADHD is a more recent phenomenon, especially for adults, so it shouldn't have played a big role in this study.
> I would consider this research very preliminary.
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> Also note, the study only found an increased risk of parkinsons when the amphetamines were used in ADHD, not in obesity.
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> Perhaps in ADHD, there is an increased risk of parkinsons to begin with (due to some sort of fundamental dopaminergic system deficiancy / damage). I.e. is ADHD an independant risk factor for parkinsons?
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> If the amphetamine does cause parkinsons, does this extend to methylphenidate?
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