What is Ritalin?

What a horrible thing to allow someone else to prescribe to our children for acting like children:

"Parents are seldom told that Ritalin is ‘speed’—that it is pharmacologically classified with amphetamines, has the same effects, side effects, and risks. Yet this is well-known in the profession...."
—Dr. Peter R. Breggin & Ginger Ross Breggin, The War Against Children, P. 84

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