[templar]

are promoted by schools and others as a "quick fix" without other appropriate treatment.

Yeah, treatment like improved teaching methods.

[JuliaAnne]

I agree with templar and would also add that we also need parents to be involved with their children's lives and showing some caring and some loving discipline rather than putting their little child on some drug! Of course, we have to realize that overall we live in a lazy society in which children are left on their own much of the time while the parents do their own 'thing' and use drugs to control and turn the children into mindless little robots. It is disgusting. It is a known fact that Ritalin is highly overprescribed and it makes me sick to think of the innocent children who are being placed on it.