... , give the child drugs. This is happening all too often lately. Children are over prescribed psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac. Ritalin, a psychotropic drug developed by the CIBA Pharmaceutical Company in 1950 used in the treatment of ADD, has increased in usage seven hundred percent since 1990(Gibbs 1). In the United States alone, 7.7 tons of Ritalin are consumed, all by ... work well under certain circumstances. When Megan Kellar was ten she would cry constantly, would not eat, would not go to school; then her doctor recommended that she might try Paxil (a Prozac replica) a...

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