Kids taking ADHD drug Ritalin are about an inch shorter and 4.4 pounds lighter than their friends, according to new study. It won’t be clear until two years from now whether the children’s growth is permanently affected.
Ritalin is such a wonder drug! Now, not only does it make your offspring more manageable, they also cost less to feed and clothe!
ADHD Drug Does Stunt Growth [WebMD via Stay Free!]
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@G-Dog:
Sounds like you had a bunch of mis-/improper diagnoses (sp?). No offense, but I don’t that your wife made a proper assessment of your problem, which I think is the problem with a lot of kids these days; you have all these teachers and other elders that are not properly diagnosing children, and doctor’s aren’t making things better. I went to the doctor’s a few months ago and told him I thought I may have ADHD. He gave me a script for Ritalin; it was incredibly easy to get, I could have just read the symptoms off of WebMD. When the Ritalin didn’t work, I went back and he sent me to a psychologist. Even then he, after about an hour of questions, didn’t really get anything out of me that I couldn’t have lied about. Now I have a script for Adderall XR and man does it work. The point tho is that it’s a difficult thing to diagnose in children and it lends itself to being an easy diagnosis for people to “abuse” to gain access to controlled substances.
@mrdelayer:
so what’s your excuse then?