Posted by alohashirt on October 16, 2005, at 22:39:32
In reply to Re: You have tried Cocaine and Ritalin-compare?, posted by Ryan2828 on October 14, 2005, at 18:53:51
> I think Ritalin helps hundreds but hurts thousands who abuse it, 6 and 7 year olds snorting it in school is a problem.
Um really?
I recall the panic that swept my elementary school in 1976 when the PTA sent home a newsletter asking parents to watch for drug dealers who were hanging out near school and giving away colored stickers to children that were impregnated with LSD. This was one of those urban myths that swept the world and were repeated as fact by people who had no notion of that this was in fact, just a myth, just like the alligators in the sewers of New York City, or the razor blades in the Halloween apples, or the ... There are *NO* reported incidents of drug dealers distributing LSD on the back of stickers to children despite this urban myth having spread the world.
Ryan - have you observed a seven year old snort ritalin? Do you have direct personal knowledge (third hand doesn't count) of a seven year old who has done this? Ritalin appears to help hjundreds of thousands and is in an extremely effective drug esopecially when dealing with children's ADHD symptoms. Children who are prescribed Ritalin have a lower incidence of drug abuse than those who are not. I remember when my sister tried to smoke alfalfa (lucerne) but there is no cottage industry in writing books scaring people about the dangers of alfalfa. I suspect that there are probably 100x as many people who are negatively impacted by Tylenol than ritalin.
Aloha
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