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...Breggin was equally critical of Ritalin, a drug often used to treat children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). He said the effects of the addictive drug essentially take away young people's personalities...
...Addicts of Ritalin will sit around...doing stupid tasks that require no initiative and have no novelty," Breggin said. "Children become more complaint. They'll sit down and do these stupid things, so long as we drug them...
...Breggin further cited a study that showed a shrinkage of the brain in adults who used Ritalin as children. He said he was frustrated that no one seemed to care about the negative effects...
...That's an incredible thing to inflict on 3 or 4 million children," Breggin said. "We live in a nation that handles its kids by drugging them. I think it is this century's child abuse...
...Overall, Breggin said the use of such drugs by psychiatric patients is akin to treating them worse than inanimate objects...