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Ritalin
Title: Ritalin
Category: Social Sciences
Details: Words: 1742 | Pages: 7.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ritalin
The Dark side of a Wonder Drug-A Selected Collection of Testimony on the
Safety of Ritalin
'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 school
office just to get their midday dose of Ritalin. Ritalin, the drug used to treat
hyperactivity in children, is …showed first 75 words of 1742 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1742 total…abused'(Ritalin Zone). And if
doctors are leisurely prescribing the pills, there will be problems. Pisterman
wonders just how well children on the drugs are being monitored. But while
Jerry Kilroy, Ph.D., worries that Ritalin is being overused, 'it worries me just
as much that a kid who needs help isn't getting it'(Ritalin Boy). Hopefully
people will educate themselves about a drug that effects his or her body
before acting on a whim.
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