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Family Quote of the Week: Ritalin and Mind Control

"The fourth and most obvious reason millions of Americans, most of them children, are now taking Ritalin can be summarized in a single word that crops up everywhere in the dry-bones literature on ADD and its drug of choice: compliance. One day at a time, the drug continues to make children do what their parents and teachers either will not or cannot get them to do without it: Sit down, shut up, keep still, pay attention."

(Source: Mary Eberstadt, "Why Ritalin Rules," Policy Review, April & May 1999, No. 94.)