Word: ritalin
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Those things--whether Lexapro or Ritalin or Prozac or something else--are being done for more and more American children. In fact, they are being done with such frequency that some people have justifiably begun to ask, Are we raising Generation...
...North Korea ( A ) went on Ritalin. ( B ) proposed Idi Amin for a posthumous Nobel Prize. ( C ) fired its longtime p.r. firm...
...school too. A new study by the University of Pittsburgh finds that children with severe, persistent ADHD are more likely to drink, smoke cigarettes and use other drugs as teenagers. The good news, according to another study by Massachusetts General Hospital, is that if these children are treated with Ritalin (itself no panacea), they are no more likely than their peers without ADHD to develop drug and alcohol problems...
...Percentage of children and adolescents who took Ritalin, antidepressants or some other psychiatric drug...
Thus, the border between drugs to support a lifestyle and drugs to treat a disease is constantly shifting. The mothers who demand Ritalin for their sons do so not only so their children can sit still through hours of boring class time; it’s just plain easier to deal with a pliable, narcotized child than a normal, energetic, rambunctious one. Doctors, who have been put in an increasingly difficult position in the last decade as pharmaceutical companies try to sell their drugs directly to patients, have a difficult time saying no if their colleagues are all saying...