Tuesday, November 01, 2005

STATS ON RITALIN!!!!

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ritalin is on the decline as of 2004. Good job Charles. That coinicides with your protest last summer.

Anonymous said...

Any decline is negligble and it is not reflection on Charles's lack of efforts. It is reflection on the inaction of Lord government which refuses to address the issue.

Spinks said...

Gotta start somewhere. Is there more work to do? Sure, but if the numbers are going down, that's a good thing in my books.

Anonymous said...

These figures are old. It will be interesting what happened since 2004. Especially when there has been very little action on the part of Lord government.

Keep in mind enrollment in universities is lower. May be there is decline in young population which might be contributing to. Child-bearing young people and people with young children are moving out of the province. Per capita rate may still be higher.

Anonymous said...

Note that 10,000 prescriptions filled does not means 10,000 children. Prescriptions usually jhave to be refilled, often every three months. So, we're talking about 2,500 children NB on Ritalin, not 10,000 and certainly not 48,000.

Anonymous said...

Instead of making these guesses why does Lord government not study the Ritalin issue. That way we will get accurate figures. Even few thousand children who end up with addiction and then get addicted to stronger and illegal drugs is a great loss. Even one child lost is a great loss.

I do not understand that why these anti-abortionist get so upset with abortion but children dying in this manner is ok. Does that mean that let a child be born then go ahead and kill him or her? Is that ok then? Come on now.

Spinks said...

9:03, I'm not sure what you;re driving at. I don't know of anyone who is pro-life that has come out and said they're for killing children by drugging them. If you have heard that, perhaps you have a case but I've certainly never heard or read anything like that.

Anonymous said...

10,000 signatures 10,000 kids on Ritalin(or More?)40,000 hits and all of this means absolutely Nothing to the Bernard Government.FOR SHAME,FOR SHAME,FOR SHAME....Keep it going charlie! some will hear the cries of the children one day!