The Dark Side Of A Wonder Drug-A Selected Collection Of Testimony On The Safety Of Ritalin
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The Dark side of a Wonder Drug-A Selected Collection of Testimony on the Safety
"We give our children every day, yet we punish adults for taking speed,"
stated a concerned parent(Ritalin Zone). A trip to the principal's office used
to mean big trouble. These days, more kids are showing up in the s ....
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.... parents becoming
less tolerant of unruly behavior.
Some local school offices have become virtual noon-time pharmacies. At one
Ottawa-area board of education, the number of medications dispensed to students
by office administrators has increased 20 per cent over the past 18 months. A
good chunk of those pills are Ritalin. "We always worry that we're a half-step
away from giving someone the wrong dosage," says John Beatty, the board's
superintendent of school operations(Ritalin Boy). "In ....
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