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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Ritalin Making Kids Sick


Accidental overdoses and side effects from attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder drugs send about 3,100 Americans — 80 percent of them children — to hospital emergency rooms annually, a federal survey has found. (Washington Post, Thursday)

It's called iatrogenesis.

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