Comments on: So Ritalin is a write-off

By: Lili

Lili — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:46:56 +0000

Yes, Craig, it is a paradox isn’t it? We should be using behaviour modification rather than medication, but popping a pill is so much easier than actually disciplining your children and teaching them to behave. As for teachers they have the unenviable job of trying to make up for the lack of discipline by parents who think that pandering to their children’s whims is doing them a favour. It isn’t.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:21:40 +0000

Thank you for speaking out. I am a teacher, and I too am totally disgusted with officialdom’s methods on eduaction in general, and regarding Ritalin in particular. What on earth is going on where there are studies and “measures” on how to reduce illicit and harmful drug use, alongside enforced, legalised drugging of children with the very same class of drugs (amphetamine type stimulants, of which Ritalin is one) in the name of what are, in my opinion, totally specious reasons (helping so called ADHD)?! What is it with that??

By: Max

Max — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:35:28 +0000

Well, one has to have something to go with post-viral cough.

By: Lili

Lili — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:59:01 +0000

You could be right Max, but don’t you think that the doctors have had a long enough run with “There’s something going around…a virus.”

By: Max

Max — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:30:53 +0000

Yeah! I’ve yet to be convinced that the etymological root of idiopathic is not idiot.

By: Lili

Lili — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:26:23 +0000

Better still, Max, how about ideopathic oedema when they haven’t got a clue what causes it?

By: Max

Max — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:32:45 +0000

Why would anyone want dropsy, when “oedema of undetermined origin” is available for the same price ???
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