The Truth About Ritalin Abuse
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Author | : Ida Walker |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1422293033 |
It seemed like an easy answer. If a child was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder—ADHD—give him Ritalin and all would be better. The answer—and the condition—turned out not to be that easy. Recreational Ritalin: The Not-So-Smart Drug provides an overview of ADHD and the drug most often prescribed to treat the condition. This book provides you with a description of other drugs like Ritalin and their effects, good and bad. You will also learn about ADHD and the controversy surrounding its diagnosis and treatment. But Ritalin and other drugs like it have moved out of the classroom and away from their legitimate uses in treating a medical condition. College students and young professionals are now using the drugs to gain that "extra edge" to achieve success. Recreational Ritalin: The Not-So-Smart Drug tells their stories as well. You will also discover how Ritalin abuse is being effectively treated.
Author | : Eileen Beal |
Publisher | : Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1998-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781568382487 |
Describes the medical uses of the prescription drug Ritalin, the problems presented by overprescribing it, its potential for abuse, and ways to prevent such abuse.
Author | : Francha Roffe Menhard |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder |
ISBN | : 9780761422457 |
Describes the medical uses of Ritalin and other methylphenidate-containing drugs, their effects on the mind and body, their potential for abuse, and some potential dangers.
Author | : Rosa Waters |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 2014-11-17 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1422288021 |
People with ADHD—attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder—can be helped by medications such as Ritalin™ and Adderall™. Alternatively, other young adults are abusing these same drugs to their own detriment. Discover the true consequences of ADHD medication abuse, including the many health risks of taking these drugs. Learn how abusing ADHD medication can change your life for the worse. Discover the downside of ADHD medication abuse!
Author | : Elizabeth Wurtzel |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0743226003 |
Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respect—everything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness. For all of her professional success, Wurtzel felt like a failure. She had lost friends and lovers, every magazine job she'd held, and way too much weight. She couldn't write, and her second book was past due. But when her doctor prescribed Ritalin to help her focus-and boost the effects of her antidepressants—Wurtzel was spared. The Ritalin worked. And worked. The pills became her sugar...the sweetness in the days that have none. Soon she began grinding up the Ritalin and snorting it. Then came the cocaine, then more Ritalin, then more cocaine. Then I need more. I always need more. For all of my life I have needed more... More, Now, Again is the brutally honest, often painful account of Wurtzel's descent into drug addiction. It is also a survival story: How Wurtzel managed to break free of her relationship with Ritalin and learned to love life, and herself, is at the heart of this ultimately uplifting memoir that no reader will soon forget.
Author | : Eileen Beal |
Publisher | : Rosen Young Adult |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780823937592 |
Describes the medical uses of the prescription drug Ritalin, the problems presented by overprescribing it, its potential for abuse, and ways to prevent such abuse.
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Publisher | : Drug-Free World |
Total Pages | : 32 |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder |
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Author | : Lawrence H. Diller |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2009-09-23 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 030742328X |
In a book as provocative and newsworthy as Listening to Prozac and Driven to Distraction, a physician speaks out on America's epidemic level of diagnoses for attention deficit disorder, and on the drug that has become almost a symbol of our times: Ritalin. In 1997 alone, nearly five million people in the United States were prescribed Ritalin--most of them young children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. Use of this drug, which is a stimulant related to amphetamine, has increased by 700 percent since 1990. And this phenomenon appears to be uniquely American: 90 percent of the world's Ritalin is used here. Is this a cause for alarm--or simply the case of an effective treatment meeting a newly discovered need? Important medical advance--or drug of abuse, as some critics claim? Lawrence Diller has written the definitive book about this crucial debate--evenhanded, wide-ranging, and intimate in its knowledge of families, schools, and the pressures of our speeded-up society. As a pediatrician and family therapist, he has evaluated hundreds of children, adolescents, and adults for ADD, and he offers crucial information and treatment options for anyone struggling with this problem. Running on Ritalin also throws a spotlight on some of our most fundamental values and goals. What does Ritalin say about the old conundrums of nature vs. nurture, free will vs. responsibility? Is ADD a disability that entitles us to special treatment? If our best is not good enough, can we find motivation and success in a pill? Is there still a place for childhood in the performance-driven America of the late nineties?