From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:41:23 +0800
To: Michael Helm <mike@fionn.lbl.gov>
Subject: Re: "White 'Punks on Dope" (w apologies to The Tubes)
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On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Michael Helm wrote:
> Ritalin or other drugs, their benefits & their costs, but this straw
> man is just ridiculous, & betrays the author's lack of knowledge.
> Unfortunately a similar misunderstanding is reflected in the writings
> of 1 or 2 others on this topic too.


> Parental (or other) control is not at issue at all with add; self
> control is the main problem.

     No, the POINT IS MIS-DIAGNOSIS. Children who are either brighter 
than their classmates and figured out the assignement with in minutes 
of the teacher giving it, or children with _no_ boundries implemented 
by their parents (people are like fractals, very subject to initial 
conditions) hence they keep pushing and pushing so the parents respond
by instituting chemical control.

     Most of the people who are arguing "against" ritilan ADMIT there 
are (or might be) some cases where certain chemicals are the way to go, 
but we feel that there are FAR to many cases out there. 

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@crash.suba.com