Is Ritalin (methylphenidate) an amphetamine? Or simply a CNS stimulant?

Are all CNS stimulants classed as amphetamines? Does methylphenidate appear as an amphetamine on drug screen initial immunoassay? If so, does it also appear on confirmation gas chromotography and mass spectrometry?

Answer:
It's an amphetamine-like drug but not, strictly speaking, an amphetamine. It will show as amphetamine on many screening tests, but the confirmatory tests should yield exact identification.
I'm not sure how to answer the part about classification. That's descriptive, and sometimes legal, without a single set standard. Certainly it's reasonable to classify, say, pseudoephedrine either way, but calling caffeine an amphetamine-like drug is a bit of a stretch, though not totally off-base.
This is a synthetic form of amphetamine, and yes it will show up in a drug screen as an amphetamine.

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