Word: ritalin
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...turned them into a bunch of gun-toting, pot-smoking, crack-snacking lunatics. Frankly, a man (or an overgrown adolescent) who can’t win over his mother’s love definitely doesn’t deserve my support. This guy needs a bit of Ritalin and a whole bunch of Prozac, not another glowing review from some crackpot critic who can’t tell the difference between art and tasteless garbage, who’d tell you the Mona Lisa would be greatly improved if she were covered in horseshit. Eminem represents corrupt and demented form...
...being transmogrified into disease. A good example is Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which according to some psychiatrists, may affect 15 million Americans. This disease, which was originally called ADD, entered the American Psychiatric Association’s list of disorders only in 1980. Within in a decade, Ritalin became the favored drug to treat this disorder, and both the disease and the drug became wildly popular. But the enormous numbers of children taking the drug suggest that the normal exuberance of childhood has been declared treatable. Studies on the use of drugs such as Ritalin have proven their...
...best explanation for these results is that the drug and the disease have co-evolved and now exist in a harmonious, mutually beneficial relationship. Without the disease, the drug would be just another form of getting high. (Ritalin and cocaine are similarly preferable to laboratory animals when given a choice.) And without the drug, the disease could be written off as normal childhood boisterousness...
...sorry mess called The Truth About Charlie. From Grant and Hepburn in Charade to Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton in Charlie, the charisma drop is steeper than that of Martha Stewart's stock price. Director Jonathan Demme's jittery melange is shot in punishing close-ups by a Ritalin-deprived camera circling the actors like a Formula One driver racing around the Place de la Concorde. Donen got it gloriously right the first time. Why do it again? And why do it like this? --By Richard Corliss...
Where to find you on a Saturday night: Snorting Ritalin by myself and dancing to New Order...