Word: ritalin
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...time I viewed the indulgence as 12-year-old consumer culture run amok; today, I wonder if the binge might not also have been triggered by the fact that for once that summer, Brad had access to large quantities of food at 9 p.m., after the effects of the Ritalin were beginning to wear off, but before he had received his sleep-inducing pill...
Speculation? Perhaps, but in a harmless fashion, unlike the dangerous speculation that the psychiatric professional makes everytime he diagnoses a child with ADD and prescribes Ritalin or other similar medicines whose effects have not been conclusively determined...
...Department of Agriculture lists Ritalin as a Schedule II Controlled Substance, placing it on a list next to Cocaine and Methamphetamine. It is a potentially dangerous drug whose long term effects are unclear, and its emergence as a street drug may be quashed only by the disproportionate amount of negative to positive effects on consciousness...
Despite the uncertainties and unsavories of Ritalin, over one million children currently take Ritalin to counteract the manifestations of ADD. In a recent Newsweek article, Dr. Laurence Greenhill of Columbia Medical School called Ritalin "one of the raving successes in psychiatry." Parents everywhere are seeking a mandate from medicine, taking unmanageable children to doctors who tend with very little resistance to diagnose them as ADD and put them on a regular diet of Ritalin, sometimes supplementing the prescription with Prozac...
...higher income levels, where parents can afford to and often depend on clinical salvation. ADD has become so stylish in recent years that school psychiatrists have picked up on the trend, and the numbers of ADD-diagnosed children has skyrocketed. Consumption has quadrupled in the past decade, and Ritalin use is five times higher in the United States than in any other country. Some medical experts are willing to go so far as to assert that one in every 20 children is ADD, with a significant number of those being ADHD...