[JamesP81]

Another point — young people who may have wanted to join the military won’t be able to if they’ve been on Ritalin.

Do you have documentation on this? I thought about joining the Navy out of high school. Turns out they might not've taken me anyway.

[sam_paine]

Another point — young people who may have wanted to join the military won’t be able to if they’ve been on Ritalin.///Do you have documentation on this?

FALSE

I picked up the fone and called the local recruiting office. There was some discussion as they looked it up.

The recruit has to be off of Ritalin/Aderall for at least one year and they will take him.

In any event, he MUST disclose the fact that he's been treated for ADD/ADHD in the past, but they will take them and note it on his record forever.

To avoid the "medical abuse" charge, a parent should find a doctor or two that diagnose the kid as "normal".

If you have 5 doctors prescribing Ritalin and you as a parent just say no on principle, then you should be liable for "medical abuse." If you can't find one or two other doctors SOMEWHERE to support you, then you've got no leg to stand on, folks, no matter how wrong it is to prescribe this stuff to kids, or how right you are or how well we all got along without it in the past.