| Copyright (c) 2009 James Holan | | | | time. |
| We've all heard of it, we might even have children that | | | | As these children were diagnosed they were put on |
| have been diagnosed with it but how much do we | | | | medications and placed in behavioral therapies to |
| truly know about ADD? | | | | combat the disorder. More children were on than |
| ADD and ADHD have been around since the 1960's or | | | | vitamins. To top it all off, most of these medications |
| more accurately since 1968. At this point in time | | | | had ill affects that were never released by the |
| psychologist believed it was a form of brain damage | | | | manufactures. People were seeing children who used |
| or a sever learning disorder as the first few names | | | | to be happy become, literary, zombies. The reasons |
| implied, Minimal Brain Dysfunction, Hyperactivity | | | | for this was in the drugs and in a drug manufactures |
| Disorder, and Minimal Brain Damage. By the early | | | | secret. Ritalin was a drug designed for adults, which |
| eighties the disorder assumed the name Attention | | | | means, that a proper dose for a child was never |
| Deficit Disorder and started to become one of the | | | | created. In other words, every time a child takes Ritalin |
| most commonly diagnoised childhood illnesses of the | | | | they are receiving an adult dose of the drug. |