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Rallying behind Ritalin.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
I take extreme exception to your article "Totalitarian Medicine" (August 25th issue). I am a public school teacher, a sufferer of A.D.D., and parent of a child with A.D.D. First of all, A.D.D. was not renamed A.D.H.D. The latter includes hyperactivity while the former does not.
My wife, also a public school teacher, and I struggled about using Ritalin on our child. When she could not focus her attention at all, she was expressing very low self-esteem and depression. Once placed on the drug, her grades zoomed to A's. We discussed removing her from the drug for summer vacations and my child said, "Don't. I don't like myself without it." The use of the drug has had no negative sides to ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Rallying behind Ritalin.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)