drugs

Our book mentioned a few different types of drugs: halogens, depressants and stimulants. I wanted to talk a little about a stimulant our book did not mention: Ritalin.
There are many drugs similar to Ritalin, and they are all stimulants. For most people They act as normal stimulants but for a select few things are different. For a small portion of people taking certain stimulants will actually calm them down. These select few kids have a little disorder called ADHD. The number of people diagnosed with ADHD or ADD is increasing every year. The number of people diagnosed rose over 5% each year from 2003 to 2007. While it might be helping a lot of them it is certainly hurting a lot more as well. There are so many pills flying around now that it is an easy drug to acquire. These drugs are becoming more ond more of a problem each year. Kids who are diagnosed are selling their meds to their peers. For their peers it is a fun experience. But it is also a dangerous one. Our book told us all about the side effects of taking stimulants. Most of them do not seem very pleasant and the bad outweighs the good in my mind. Besides the long term effects there are many immediate side effects as well. Perhaps the scariest of them all is the possibility of overdosage. I have heard a few stories about kids being rushed to the hospital because of Ritalin, or similar drugs, and I do everything I can to make sure that it is not me or caused because of me.