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The numbers of children being diagnosed with this "disease" has increased 500 percent in just the last ten years — and the production of Ritalin in this country has increased by over 700 percent.

Let's see isn't Nitendo about 10 years old or so? I think it is. But what does Nitendo or such things as video games and the special effects entertainment bombardment have to do with the rise in Ritalin use? Plenty if look beyond ADD ADHD to a more common disorder. Central Auditory Processing Disorders behavioral symptoms are almost identical to those said to be ADD ADHD.

The problem is games like Nitendo, cartoons like Lion King, movies of high drama, and certain audio stimulis set off ADD ADHD behavior in C.A.P.D. kids. The medical condition has been dormant probably since mans time on earth. We are now asking ours and our kids bodies to respond to what is to many the very limits of their abilities to process sensory input. The result of sensory overload in the case of CAPD is mistaken as ADD ADHD.

Common sense says there is a common problem triggering kids and many adults to ADD ADHD symptoms. Seeing that the Ritalin is well over 50 years old it makes more sense to look beyond the Ritalin market as the cause. If drug companies wanted to make a fortune then would it not make more sense for them to make a simular medication improved so to speak that isn't Generic?

I think Ritalin is over used and I think ADD ADHD is ain many cases a gross mis-diagnoses of a pre-existing medical condition likely being Inner Ear damage which is usually permenant in nature.

You may very well be on to something. Had a psychiatrist friend once who said that 90% of mental disorders or more would never develop if people still lived on farms, worked hard, ate natural foods, and lived without all the entertainment, stress, and distractions that come along with modern life. I think my kids have less powerful imaginations and less ability to entertain themselves than I did at their age, and if I could change anything about their early childhoods, I would have thrown out the TV and VCR and kept them out of the house. We didn't know better.

"The problem is games like Nintendo, cartoons like Lion King, movies of high drama, and certain audio stimulis set off ADD ADHD behavior in C.A.P.D. kids. "

I tend to agree with you, however, your statement is a bit too general.
Games like Nintendo, cartoons like Lion King, movies of high drama, and certain audio stimulis can set off ADD ADHD behavior in some C.A.P.D. kids.
The link is not absolute and is, as yet, unproven.
Additionally, this whole discussion, I feel, points up the need for increased attention to pre-natal care for infants in the womb. Special attention must be given to dietary concerns of the fetus. Granted, genetics plays a role. But, to ensure proper physiological development, special attention neeeds to be given to the nutritional aspect of any pregnancy, as well as screening out harmful chemicals that may be introduced by exposure to alcohol, tobacco and even common cold remedies.
The stakes are too high to take the gamble and do otherwise.