Dexadrine: A Mother's concern//What are we doing to our kids anyway?

[Sir D. R. Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A.]

Dexadrine: A Mother's concern

From: William Scullin <scul...@premier.net> wrote:

I was one of those tortured teens on Dex. I was a holy terror
physically
and mentally. Before Dex I was a 3.5 GPA honors student with many
friends, a promising afterschool job, devotion to a Christian God, and
looking forward to Highschool. I started on Dex on 9th grade 20mg
every
morning, by January this year my grades had fallen to a 2.9 GPA, I
lost
my friends, I was fired from my after school computer job, I lost my
faith, and was seriously pondering suicide. I read Ayn Rand's
Fountianhead for school and from its message of self responsibility I
didn't only get mad at myself I got even.

Following advice from this newsgroup I called my neurolgist on the
phone
and refused to get off the line until I was gauranteed an appointment.
I
went to Ritalin (20mg 3 times a day), Zoloft (50 mg once a day to
restore my sleep patterns and temper), and resumed taking Lithium for
my
manic-depression. My grades still aren't back up where they were, I've
healed my broken relationships with friends, I'm appling for a job at
another computer store this summer, I'm now a humanist / agnostic
(attending a Quaker meeting though), and my outlook on life has turned
around, I also now fight anyone anywhere in their teenage years being
placed on Dex. Dex lead me into nothing but misery - a statement
common
among my friends with ADD.

Please get your son off Dex, if not for your sake, then his...

May God smile upon your house,
William Scullin
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Dear William Scullin;

I couldn't have said it any better. Thanks for your encouraging
words!

Artie