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Parents Pressured to Keep Children on Psychiatric Drugs

  • June 07, 2004

One father noticed his son was apparently experiencing serious side effects from Ritalin prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and he decided to take the boy off the medication. Now, he says he may be accused of child abuse. The 12-year-old boy began displaying some symptoms including losing weight, not eating and not sleeping that his father suspected were related to the use of Ritalin. After stopping the drugs the boy was sleeping better and his appetite had...