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Stories by Lawrence H. Diller

Parenting, Not Pills

A new study casts serious doubt on our all-too-common practice of dosing hyperactive kids with Ritalin.
Posted on Dec 16, 2002, Source: Salon

A Prescription for Disaster

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?
Posted on May 23, 2002, Source: Salon

Just Say Yes to Ritalin!

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!"
Posted on Sep 25, 2000, Source: Salon