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Originally posted by dtb
Absolutely. I don't disagree with anything you said. My only point was that in those cases where there REALLY IS a kid with the condition, it is important to consider medication. And that when medication is properly prescribed (meaning, for a kid that actually suffers from ADD), there are potential harms in NOT giving it to him/her.
Who would disagree with the idea that unnecessary medication is a bad thing? I certainly didn't intend to convey that message, and I certainly am not the opinion that Ritalin should be passed out like candy.
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I didn't read you that way; my objections were mostly to Atticus' approach, which I read as overdiscounting the potential for drugs to do good, but I also read you as putting too much weight in the studies and the last fifty years of experience. My experience has led me to believe that the first forty of those fifty years were terribly unproductive!
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