Sometimes they seem to go from disease to disease and made us panic about each and every one of them. When my children were just entering school ADHD was all the rage. All of the children who for some reason or other were put on Ritalin. Ritalin turns out to be an amphetamine. We were addicting our children to amphetamines and now we wonder why they are so easily addicted to other drugs. When I was in grade school, only one or two children in the entire school were “wild” enough for even the kids to see there was a need for something more than simple discipline. Now it seems that if our children are developing not quite fast enough we drug them. I’m not sure how this relates to autism ( which I believe is a serious problem) but I think time will tell and I’m fairly certain that the drug companies will somehow be involved again.
Agree with your Ritalin and drug theory. I think one of the results is the current new phenomena of spree-style mass shootings. The shooters have been on a combo of speed and SSRI drugs for a decade plus.
The homicidal and suicidal ideation warnings are right on the packages.
Some of these kids are on it from the first two or three years of elementary school.