About five years ago, teachers heard the welcome news that small doses of amphetamines and other psychoactive drugs could turn hyperactive children into willing learners. As a result, an estimated 300,000 children now are taking these drugsĀand many of them should not be. Last week the Committee on Drugs of the American Academy of Pediatrics proposed regulations to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent abuses such as these:
> In Garden City, Mich., a teacher persuaded a father to get a physician to prescribe Ritalin to calm his restless six-year-old daughter...
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