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Transcript: ADD & Ritalin
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- Fresh Air (NPR)
- Article date:
- September 10, 1998
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BARBARA BOGAVE, HOST: Since 1990, the number of children and adults
diagnosed with attention deficit disorder or ADD has risen from about
900,000 to nearly five million. The drug most commonly prescribed
to treat ADD is a stimulant called Ritalin.
In this decade, Ritalin use has increased by 700 percent.
Lawrence Diller says this is a problem of epidemic proportions, and
one unique to this country, where 90 percent of the world's Ritalin
is used. Diller is a behavioral pediatrician. He evaluates and treats
children and teenagers with a wide variety of developmental, learning
and behavior disorders.
Back in the '80s, he started noticing more and more parents and ...