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Ritalin Side Effects: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!

Is your child acting up? Would it be easier for you if that child were, say, smaller? Then we have the drug for you: Ritalin!

After three years on the ADHD drug Ritalin, kids are about an inch shorter and 4.4 pounds lighter than their peers, a major U.S. study shows.... children who had been taking ADHD drugs before the study began were smaller than kids who had not yet started treatment. Those who first began treatment at the start of the study were normal in size, but grew more slowly than normal kids as the study went on.

In addition to being smaller, kids on Ritalin are less creative, less interesting and less trouble.

Ritalin, for the reduction of everything.

Via American Iatrogenic Association