[beezdotcom]

As an adult, I would grasp at any chemical additive which could help me compensate for my many years of learned bad concentration habits.

As a parent, I would desperately seek to have my kids AVOID learning those same bad habits, so they wouldn't require a chemical crutch years later.

"Do as I say, not as I do?" Perhaps. It still a better option for the kids.

[WoodstockCat]

ritalin is a cocaine derivitive..if a doctor ever tried to perscribe it for either one of my kids I'd walk out of their office.

[GSlob]

Well, were it possible to chemically enhance one's memory, for example, or do other brain fine-tuning, it would be OK and popular, I suppose. The trouble as I see it is that the existing psychiatric drugs have a very crude mode of action.