babysitter in a bottle

[Guest guest]

" The United States school system is designed to create good submissive

employees, not great thinkers or artists. When a " difficult " child

challenges

this goal, drugs are recommended. I cannot advocate this habit. With

such a

dramatic increase in the diagnosis of ADHD and the prescription of

Ritalin in

the past ten years, one can't help but wonder if factors other than

the mental

health of America's children are to blame. We have in fact been

victim to a

greedy pharmaceutical company. Novartis has fraudulently promoted the

diagnosis

of ADHD in order to increase the sale of their drug, Ritalin. "

Have You Had Your Ritalin Today?

by Gemma

January 2001

http://www.impactpress.com/articles/decjan01/ritalin120101.html

" As shocking as it is to see that more than 6 percent of children are

popping

pills on a daily basis, the study merely confirms what has been

apparent for

years now. A host of factors have together created this embarrassing

situation:

parents who crave an easy solution, doctors who are all-too-willing

to provide

it, and—at the root of the problem—the educational establishment,

which has

replaced schoolyard drug dealers as the most persistent pushers of

narcotics. "

The doping of America's children

Mowbray

January 15, 2003

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/jm20030115.shtml