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I have seen the effects of Ritalin first hand with students I worked with. When not taking it, they were belligerent, ultra-hyper, loud, impossible to control, but those were a minority of kids.On it, they were sweet and sociable. Was NOT being on it just withdrawal? Maybe. Those same children I worked with also had homelives that would make many of you cringe.
When my son was diagnosed as ADD, Ritalin was constantly pushed, but I refused. One year of behavior therapy was all that was needed.
Getting a child off of Ritalin after taking it for a few years can make him/her become addicted to drugs, violent and psychopathic.
Parents MUST be held accountable for the actions of their children at such a young age and the children need to be made aware of the consequences should they be in the situation that poor kid was in. I would also hold the school nurse responsible for her total lack of judgement-medicines of any sort should never be in the hands of the child!!! (Did you know some kids SELL their Ritalin to others? It is classified as a stimulant that somehow represses the hyperactivities of ADHD kids, but 'pumps up' those whom they sell it to)
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