[Marylander]

Ritalin and many other psychoactive drugs can be used to manage the behavior of any child. The fact that it makes ADD children more manageable does not prove there is a disease involved.

I don't deny some children are harder to manage than others. I don't deny that Ritalin and related drugs make them easier to manage. I deny that they have a disease.

A reason to call the ocndition a disease is to make the negative effects of medication will be deemed acceptable. But the effects of long-term psychiatric medication during childhood are horrendous.

I have no objection to adults taking any drug they like to manage their own behavior.

[cinives]

single malt usually manages mine just fine ;)