The first new thing I learned from this article was that Ritalin and Cocaine are extremely similar. Second being the main reason why Ritalin is not highly addictive is because you swallow it in pill form which makes it you absorb it slower; causing you not to get an instant high like you would with cocaine. The third is that there are around six million children in the United States currently prescribed Ritalin. The fourth being that a significant portion of the prescriptions were not actually prescribed by a psychiatrist but family physicians. The fifth is that Americas education system is the main reason all these kids are being prescribed Ritalin, the schools create a curriculum around trying to increase test scores so they increase the reading writing and math classes, but decrease classes like art and PE.
