Today, popping a pill is as accepted as eating or breathing. This pill can be something as tame as a vitamin, containing many nutrients that we need, to a pill such as Adderall or Ritalin, a drug that is often over prescribed and has a strong potential for abuse. Whenever a child is doing poorly in school, parents may like to think that a magic pill is the answer , when really all the child needs …showed first 75 words of 574 total…

…showed last 75 words of 574 total…even knows why it works, it just does. This lack of knowledge can possibly result in long term brain damage, even though no signs of short term brain damage have surfaced. The drug was discovered in the early 1940's, and hasn't radically changed since. Parents willingly feed and doctors readily prescribe it to the children, not knowing what they may be doing to them physically, but also setting the stage for life long chemical dependency.