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Alert: AB134
Prohibits Schools from Requiring Students to take Ritalin or other psychotropic drugs.
AB134: Prohibits schools from requiring a pupil to obtain a prescription for a controlled substance as a condition to attending school. The psychotropic drug Ritalin has been the one most often prescribed. Unfortunately, parents have often been forced into giving these dangerous mind-altering drugs to their children by school personnel. Some three to four million schoolchildren are using the controversial stimulate Ritalin often used to treat “behavior disorders,” such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Ritalin has been used as the easy answer for behavioral problems. One in five college students are now on Ritalin and many a upping their doses, sharing their prescriptions with friends, and others abusing their prescriptions. Now even pre-schoolers ages 2 to 4 years, are being drugged with Ritalin, and the newer drugs Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and other psychotropic drugs. Matthew Smith began taking Ritalin at age six. At age 14, he was still on Ritalin when he suddenly collapsed while skateboarding and died that same evening. Oakland County Medical Examiner Ljubisa Dragovic determined the cause of death to be Ritalin. Matthews “long-term exposure to stimulants” was the only explanation he could find.
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