RITALIN

WHAT IS RITALIN?

• IT'S A LEGAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG USED TO TREAT ADD, ADHD, AND A SLEEP DISORDER CALLED NARCOLEPSY.
• THE MEDICAL TERM FOR RITALIAN IS METHYLPHENIDATE.
• THE DRUG COMES IN TABLETS, BUT ABUSERS GRIND THEM SO THEY CAN SHORT IT.

STREET NAMES OF THE DRUG RITALIN

• Diet coke, Smarties, R-Ball, Stattees,
• Rids, and Mans Cocaine.

SHORT-TERM EFFECTS

• Nausea, Erratic, or sometimes violent behavior
• Hallucination, hyper-excitability or irritability
• Panic & psychosis or loss of appetite

LONG-TERM EFFECTS

• Damage to the brain including strokes and possibly epilepsy
• Depression, malnutrition, and weight loss
• Permanent damage to blood vessels of the heart and brain
• Disoriented, apathy, confused exhaustion

RITALIN IS A GATE WAY DRUG

• The natural institute on drug abuse found that users of
• ritalin showed the the highest percentage of cocaine abuse leurt cobain
• started using ritalin at the age of 7. Courtney love Corbin's widow, said
• she believed that this drug led to his later abuse of stronger drugs.

CASE OF RITALIN

• One 17 year old after snorting the drug and staying up for days
• went psychotic, killed his parents and severely injured his siblings.

RISKS OF THE DRUG

• When taken as directed by a physician to treat a legitimate medical
• condition, Ritalin has proven to be a safe and effective medication.
• Medical studies have shown that individuals who have ADHD and who
• take Ritalin orally in proper dosages do not become addicted to the drug.

CITES USED

BY: NICK & NICOLE