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Ritalin Use Studied Among Children Of Divorced Parents
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
Ritalin has apparently graduated to the company of toxic chemicals and deadly diseases. Studies are being conducted to determine what circumstances and events increase the risk of Ritalin use. What we have here is a legal prescription drug that may have gone over to the dark side.
Divorce Increases Risk Of Ritalin Use
Divorce puts children at higher risk of Ritalin use compared to kids whose parents stay together, says new research by a University of Alberta sociologist, who cautions that this doesn't necessarily mean that divorce is harmful to a child. [But it does imply that Ritalin is dangerous stuff more likely to be provided to a child after a divorce.] The study appears in this week's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.Dr. Lisa Strohschein found that there is a "significantly higher" risk of Ritalin use - nearly twice as high - for children whose parents divorce compared to children whose parents remain together. It is the first study to follow children over time and evaluate whether experiencing parental divorce increases the risk for subsequent Ritalin use, a drug commonly prescribed for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Why did Dr. Strohschein select Ritalin as opposed to, say, aspirin for her study?
She was drawn to look at Ritalin usage because prescriptions to children for Ritalin have skyrocketed over the past two decades, leading to concern over whether it is being appropriately prescribed.
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