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"Thousands of Ritalin pushing teachers around the country are scared out of their wits now....

They may actually have to deal with what generations of teachers before them had to deal with - an active, rambunctious, normal kid"

Yup. I've got a kid that's easily bored by school (and I can't blame him...I was the same way at his age...sitting in front of a chalkboard 7 hours a day was absolute torture for me at that age, and I think that's true for many kids). The teachers were always sending us notes, and this got my wife to have him examined. Of course, the diagnosis was ADHD. I refused to let them use Ritalin, so they put him in Adderall. He got ultra-skinny, developed tachycardia, and we had to take him to the emergency room once because his heartbeat shot up life threatening levels (he collapsed in his mothers arms and she carried him in the hospital).

I said "Fsck It", took him out of public schools, got him off of those damned meds, and we now homeschool him. We get to spend more time with him (I love teaching him math, geography, and government...his mom teaches him the other subjects), he no longer has the racing heart. Best thing we ever did. He has a new little brother now, who will never be subjected to that same crap.

My nephew was put on that stuff also for a while, all the damn stuff is is old fashioned diet pills.

I am overweight and my Dr. suggested I might want to try it to help lose weight, I just laughed at him. I know what it can do to your heart, he said I would be Ok but no way did I want to risk it.

My nephew was diagnosed later with being bi-polar, he has some severe emotional problems and the stuff he is on now made his weight shoot up almost 30 lbs. in 6 months.

To me it seems like they are giving the stuff away like candy now, there are some classes in the city of Detroit that almost 50% of the kids are on the stuff. The school recommends the Dr. to send the kid to, and lo and behold he gets immediately diagnosed and put on the stuff. The single mothers like it because it gets them more money having a diagnosed child with a mental problem, and they also don't act up at home as much either, so to them it is a win/win situation.