It changes the child. Research is showing that Ritalin use is a common factor among many of the students who have walked into their schools and opened fire. DeWeese points out that the Food and Drug Administration recorded nearly 3,000 adverse reactions to Ritalin from 1990 to 1997, including 160 deaths and 569 hospitalizations. If taken off the drug, they report feeling lost, frightened, even paranoid. Research has shown that children on Ritalin are three times more likely to develop a taste for cocaine.
Children feel the loss, and they take action for atten- tion.
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