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with precision as a reduction in all spontaneous or self-generated activities. In animals and in humans, this is manifested in a reduction in the following behaviors: (1) exploration and curiosity; (2) socializing, and (3) playing.

Second, the drugs increase obsessive-compulsive behaviors, including very limited, overly focused activities.
Table II provides a list of adverse stimulant effects which are commonly mistaken as improvement by clinicians, teachers, and parents.[iii]

I will not bore you all to tears with any more quotes. Please feel free to visit the sites I have mentioned for more information. It just seems to me, and perhaps I have a unique perspective being hyperactive myself, that we are trying to explain away behavioral problems as brain malfunctions, instead of parental failures. It is the role of parents to shape and guide their children, not drug them into a zombie like state.

Maybe I believe so strongly in this because my parents chose not to drug me. They chose to love and encourage me. Yes, they even chose to punish me when I did bad things. I have learned to live with the restlessness. I have learned to control what I say and when I say it. I have learned respect for others. All of this is part of growing up and being a member of a society. Please save our children from the Orwellian tactics we see before us.

[i] http://www.nimh.nih.gov/public at/adhd.cfm

[ii] http://www.breggin.com/congres s.html

[iii] http://www.breggin.com/congres s.html

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