Word: ritalin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Garden City, Mich., a teacher persuaded a father to get a physician to prescribe Ritalin to calm his restless six-year-old daughter Joanie. The drug made her so withdrawn that she would sometimes sit for hours doing nothing. "One day I got panicky," her father said. "I had just said her name softly, and she started sobbing uncontrollably." A battery of tests disclosed that Joanie was perfectly healthy. What she needed was drill in basic reading, not drugs...
...school. But in the last year Jeremy, now ten, has been earning A's and B's in his classes at Anaheim, Calif. The difference is that now, before every breakfast and lunch and after school during the academic year, Jeremy takes a pale green tablet of Ritalin, the trade name for methylphenidate, a mild stimulant...
...school districts in which he helps to screen children and to recommend treatment. He treats 2,000 children in his private practice. Not all respond to drugs as dramatically as Jeremy did, he cautions, but most of them do so much better than before that he keeps them on Ritalin or an equivalent drug throughout the school year. After about two years, Adler arbitrarily decreases the dosage during the summer vacation, hoping that new habit patterns will have formed by fall, enabling the child to carry on. "If he is successful then, when for so long he has been...
Oberst said that the drugs increase the child's ability to concentrate. Of Ritalin he added, "how it works is still the $64 question...
...five drugs given to the children-most of whom are in grades one to six-are known by the brand names Ritalin, Dexedrene, Deaner, Aventil, and Tofanil. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lists all five as dangerous substances, and warns doctors to use particular care in dispensing Ritalin-a powerful stimulant-because of the danger of addiction and undesirable side effects...