Word: ritalin
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Only an outline had emerged by week's end to explain Solomon's feeble rampage. T.J. was taking Ritalin, which is usually prescribed for hyperactivity. A friend of the family said that his grades had been falling during the past year and that he had been medically treated for depression...
Over the past year, we have run many family-related covers on such subjects as homework, Ritalin, genealogy and growing up online. Yet, as our health columnist, Christine Gorman, explains, "the news most useful to people often doesn't make big headlines." It takes an expert columnist to dig it out and turn it into practical advice. And we've recruited two of the best to take turns writing our family column...
...outcast is only the most recent unpleasant human condition to be cast into a medical context. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), which has become the popular diagnosis for kids who won't behave, was the first to enter the national consciousness. ADD is treated by drugging hyperactive children with Ritalin...
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...list of behaviors that could define hyperactive children, I was struck by the fact that they describe what we used to call an obnoxious little brat. Pity the poor parents who have to resort to drugs to replace good old-fashioned parenting. Do any of the kids who take Ritalin learn, through some weird chemical process, good manners, politeness, kindness and altruism? Are parents that naive, or do they just want to turn their kids into zombies and avoid the whole problem of parenting? RICHARD ORLANDO Montreal...