As an "ADHD"kid who milked it for all it was worth, I say HELL YES! ADHD is complete BS, and use as an excuse for parents who can't control their kids. Not only physically. Diet can greatly effect a child's personality. I loved fatty foods and sugars and coke (the drink).
Now of course some kids are made to be more active than others. But there is never a case I have seen that required any drug.
< sarcasm>And as for the Ritalin problem, I think we should just legalize it, that would make people stop taking it. < /sarcasm>
shouldn't this be "40 percent more"? (going from 50 percent to 70 percent is a 40 percent increase, not 20).
...we have thousands of children in Scotland taking a drug that is more potent than cocaine...
More potent? Get real. Maybe she can explain why anyone would want cocaine when they could get something "more potent" legally and for a lot less money. Ritalin can be abused like any drug, but it's not in the league of cocaine.
The NEA has to be stoped!
School choice, vouchers, move, do anything to get your kids off this stuff.
[Why,] while any schoolchild can recite the anti-drug catechism, we are medicating up to four million youngsters with a drug virtually indistinguishable from cocaine? (The two drugs are very difficult to differentiate chemically, and animals given the opportunity to self-medicate either show no preference for Ritalin over cocaine, or actually prefer Ritalin.)