DrugBuyers.Com: Ritalin

I'm no doctor, and sure as heck not a chemist that understood ANY of these chemical diagrams, but I wanted to reply to the Mom's that were posting here worried about the kids on Ritalin. My son (now 7) initially went through the Concerta/Adderal/Ritalin chain when he first started seeing psychiatrists and I quickly took him off of all of the above, for multiple reasons. First off, obviously I am an addict, and most of my family are addicts in some way shape or form (alcoholics, workaholics, morbidly obese, etc) so putting my child on something that is seriously habit forming is just NOT an option in my home. Secondly, the first questions that I asked the pediatrict psychologist:
What are the effects of smoking pot while on these drugs - methamphetamines (which IS what these drugs are)?
What happens if/when my child gets to be 16-18 years old and decides to try smoking meth or doing a couple of lines of coke?
What studies have been done on weight management if/when my child EVER goes OFF of these drugs?
How will these drugs affect my child when trying out for sports - especially later in life when sports require drug testing for stimulants?

EVERY question asked above could NOT be answered. There are no studies on what happens when someone on Ritalin or Adderall smokes meth. Now, I don't WANT my child to try meth - EVER - but I have to be realistic. I will not lay money down on the fact that my kid will NEVER try a street drug. He will be a teenager before I know it, and I tried drugs, as did most of us, and there is a CHANCE, however large or small, that he will too. When you get up every morning and do some methamphetamines (take your Adderall) and then after school that day do a couple lines of coke - does your heart explode? I would know not to mix the two, but try explaining that to a 16 year old that thinks he's immortal. Some of these kids are starting on these stimulants SO young that they won't even think about or realize that they're on METHAMPHETAMINES EVERY DAY by the time they become teens. They're just used to taking these pills each morning, since they were SIX years old... not to mention they wouldn't be thinking of that when they're approached to get high with friends later in life. There are ZERO studies done so far on street drugs' effects on these pharmacueticals.

I just can't condone giving these drugs to my kid until I know what will happen with the unpredictability of the teen years. These meds also keep you pretty thin too... so I would hate to be the poor teenage girl that goes off of her Ritalin someday as a teenager and then gains weight and becomes bulemic/anorexic, etc. bcz that's the WORST time of a girl's life to suddenly have an appetite again and put on weight.

The whole situation is sad. I understand the benefits of the drug, really I do - for some people it's a savior, but my parents didn't need this stuff and I didn't either for ADHD. Isn't it possible that we're just feeding our kids wrong? Or some other outside factor? What has changed from our childhoods to our kids childhoods? Something has. We did NOT have this many kids with ADHD back then so it really makes me think it's an environmental factor aggravating things somehow. I just wish there were more research. Oh - and I wish I had the stickwithedness to actually remove sugar from my kids' diets just to see if it worked. It's hard to do that. Comments welcome - I'd really like to hear what others think on this one. Thanks!!