The Hyperactivity Hoax: How to Stop Drugging Your Child and Find Real Medical Help
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Publish date: 11/01/1998
Description:
-- 2 million American children are now taking Ritalin for hyperactivity or Add -- and over 12 million prescriptions for it were filled last year
-- 10% of elementary school-aged boys are on Ritalin and other hyperactivity drugs
-- 90% of Ritalin is consumed in the US., and its annual production increased 500% between 1990 and 1995
-- Despite drug intervention, the prognosis for many hyperactive children is poor -- with links to violence, poor social relationships, alcoholism, and drug abuse in adulthood
-- The Physician's Desk Reference (PDR) reports a multitude of adverse effects from Ritalin, including anorexia, angina, cardiac arrhythmia.
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-- 10% of elementary school-aged boys are on Ritalin and other hyperactivity drugs
-- 90% of Ritalin is consumed in the US., and its annual production increased 500% between 1990 and 1995
-- Despite drug intervention, the prognosis for many hyperactive children is poor -- with links to violence, poor social relationships, alcoholism, and drug abuse in adulthood
-- The Physician's Desk Reference (PDR) reports a multitude of adverse effects from Ritalin, including anorexia, angina, cardiac arrhythmia.
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