Comments on: Prescribe Ritalin to Everyone, Provocative Essay Suggests

By: Bono

Bono — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:31:06 +0000

Nobody is putting a gun in your head to take those pills.

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Stefania Keville — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:02:21 +0000

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By: andy t.

andy t. — Sun, 30 May 2010 10:18:29 +0000

This seems like a step in a positive direction.

I took ritalin during block exams last year, I study physiotherapy and the workload is extremely large, not to mention difficult. I went from a grade point average of 6 (on a scale of 1-7) to a perfect grade point average after exams. If that is no results I dont know what else to say.

These drugs DO NOT make you smarter – they merely facilitate more productive study for people who already have a drive to succeed. When time is your enemy, why not up the efficiency and get more out of your study periods?

Following exams I ceased taking the drug as I no longer needed it. Sure, I missed the feeling, but I have enough will power to know that if you dont need it then you shouldnt be taking it. With regard to weight loss; I was aware of the appetite supressing effects of this drugs so I was actively aware of eating and made sure I maintained a healthy diet even if I wasnt hungry.

I currently take modifinal, a anti-narcoleptic drug similar to provigil several times a week when I study. I have done so throughout semester and I do not regret it one bit. In the time I have to study I am able to fully apply myself, allowing me to achieve exceptional results whilst maintaining a healthy work/social life.

Conclusion: DO YOUR RESEARCH! Don’t take the drugs without reading about side effects and correct dosages. Only take them for beneficial purposes (study) as appose to recreational use. Responsible use of this medication can lead to great results in the world of ethics.

Once finishing undergrad, I will be studying medicine. Let me ask you this; Would you prefer your doctor to have graduated with top marks having taken ritalin throughout his studies? Alternatively, would you feel comfortable with a doctor who ‘just got by’ due to the mountainou workload of a medical degree? This needs no explanation, and this definately needs no ethical evaluation.

By: Lisette Root

Lisette Root — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:26:29 +0000

If I had a choice of Ritalin, Prozac, or any other newly developed drug, or marijuana, I would pick marijuana every time. If you believe in God, then should you question the natural receptors we have which respond to God given herbs and other truly natural substances, (coca leaves, tobbacco, alcohol) ? We humans are the ones fooling around with the ingredients God used to make us, and judging people (bad, evil, stupid,etc.) by their preference and responses to these man made mixtures seems a little hypocritical to me. If all drugs were available to everyone, I would wager that most people would use the plants, and not the pharmaceuticals. Even though alcoholism, for example, is a destructive thing to alcoholics, most people are not alcoholics even though their access to alcohol is the same. Overall, I think we are actually talking money here, and that is the most dangerous thing of all. Legalize all drugs, but tax the most destructive man made drugs at the highest rate. Then let people live their lives without fear of doing illegal things.

By: Dar

Dar — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:47:38 +0000

Hey jhn:

“There is no scientific basis to your claim that all stimulants must give you a temporary rise in functioning followed by a “crash.” That’s folk science.”

If you believe that’s only “folk science” you don’t live in the real world.

By: sidjhon

sidjhon — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:03:56 +0000

Ritalin, a drug works as a mild central nervous system stimulant. It stimulates central nervous system through its effects on working chemicals of brain and nerves. As one of the most useful pharmaceutical drugs, ritalin contributes to reduce the symptoms and severity of hyperactivity in prepubescent children especially.

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:08:36 +0000

People seem to think in these situations in black and white. If drugs are illegal, either nobody’s doing them or only the sort of people who you don’t want to consider humans are doing them – certainly, nobody you love or care about is doing them! If drugs are legal, then everybody’s going to do them because they’re so tempting and addicting then everyone will soon be addicted and society will crumble. Certainly the truth for both cases is somewhere in the middle. The population who will seek out mind-alteration or mind-enhancement if drugs were legal are probably the same population who seek out the same ends with the legal drugs currently available (Nicotine, Tobacco, Caffeine, other unregulated things) and the illicit ones. There’s also a gradient of the type of user – one time, medical, social, casual/recreational, binge user, addict. Society is willing to accept recreational users of alcohol, even marijuana depending on the social circle. Why not other things? I don’t really have a good answer for that. It’s quite possible for there to be recreational users who uses as responsibly as medical users with any substance.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:37:07 +0000

It sounds like the athletics steroid issue. College students will soon discover (or fear) they are at a competitive disadvantage if they don’t push themselves to their limits with drugs like Ritalin to improve performance. In short, I hate the idea that people are motivated to take unnecessary risks based on FEAR. Even if 90% of people could use drugs “responsibly”, I think it can still be setting a bad example, knowing many can not. And for me the idea of dependency of any sort hurts my own self-esteem, hurts my faith that my own inner resources are sufficient, so it seems repulsive to me.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:42:08 +0000

It cannot hurt the economy. Might help.

Spiritually, I am not so sure.