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Parents throughout the country are being pressured and compelled by schools to give
psychiatric drugs to their children. Teachers, school psychologists, and administrators
commonly make dire threats about their inability to teach children without medicating
them. They sometimes suggest that only medication can stave off a bleak future of
delinquency and occupational failure. They even call child protective services to
investigate parents for child neglect and they sometimes testify against parents in court.
Often the schools recommend particular physicians who favor the use of stimulant drugs
to control behavior. These stimulant drugs include methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta,
and Metadate) or forms of amphetamine (Dexedrine and Adderall).
My purpose today is to provide to this class the scientific basis for rejecting the use of
stimulants for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or for the control of
behavior in the classroom or......

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