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Parenting, Not Pills

Posted on Dec 16, 2002, Source: Salon

A new study casts serious doubt on our all-too-common practice of dosing hyperactive kids with Ritalin.

A Prescription for Disaster

Posted on May 23, 2002, Source: Salon

The failure to test the effects in children of routinely prescribed drugs has resulted in at least one death. How many kids will die before drug companies take steps to ensure their safety?

Just Say Yes to Ritalin!

Posted on Sep 25, 2000, Source: Salon

Public school administrators, long the enthusiastic adherents of a "Just Say No!" policy on drug use, appear to have a new motto for the parents of certain hard-to-handle kids: "Medicate or Else!"
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