if someone harms my wife or daughter while using drugs or alcohol, they'd better pray that I don't catch him/her.
What if they were cold sober when they harmed your wife or daughter? Would that make a difference? I know your answer would be no already.
I just wanted to point out the fact that sober or stoned, regardless of substance, the consequences of the action are the same.
Ritalin works on everyone, its a fact. Its the most abused prescription drug on college campuses, even military academies, as it gives everyone greater focus. Since that is true, it is difficult to swallow that an individual has a chemical imbalance requiring Ritalin to correct. If that were correct, then it would only work on those with the imbalance. Again, this is not the case. But as long as the $ is rolling in for Ritalin, and the SSRIs (which have all been proven to be no more effective than plain old talk and time in clinical trials), the powers that be aren't going to say anything. What we have here is institutional drug abuse, approved by the FDA, promoted by the school and healthcare systems, to profit the pharmaceutical companies. Heck, I just sat a seminar of behavioral health professionals to review current medical evidence concluding that NONE of the medicines presently prescribed to combat veterans with PTSD are any more effective than a placebo. Over an over again, we see that with regular talk therapy, most folks are better off in 2 years, with or without meds. And some who take meds take longer to recover because of issues around the meds. But there's a lot of $ in the meds.
Begs the question then, why are some drugs legal on the basis of medical benefit when there's no science to support the claim, and other drugs are illegal on the basis that they provide no medical benefit. Seems like they're identical scientifically. Where then did we get it in our heads that some drugs are bad, and some are good? They seem to produce the same issues in people.