Реферат: Add Reaction Essay Essay Research Paper PsychologyADD
Many adults are shown in the articles I chose as having ADD. Showing that
perhaps people don’t grow out of the disorder once they reach puberty and even
when they reach their twenties. What’s even more interesting is that many of
these people who
never grow out of ADD are led to a life of crime. Whether it is impulsive
acts, poor attending, and distractibility many youths participate in criminal
acts before they are adults but even when they are adults, never really grow out
of these things. In T. Dwaine McCallon?s article (1st para), these people can
stop from considering the consequences of their actions putting them at risk of
criminal activity. Further research in this article shows that in Utah prisons,
that 24 percent of male inmates have ADD. After tests and treatments with the
drugs Ritalin, Cylert and other medications the inmates behavior was greatly
changed for the better. In fact, of the 41 prisoners paroled while on these
drugs, only three violated parole and only one had a new criminal charge brought
against them.
Of the drugs used in that experiment, Ritalin is by far the most popular and
widely used. Of the people given this medication about 80 percent of children
and 50 percent of adults improve with medication. Ritalin has been found to
greatly improve behavior,
participation, performance and how the children get along with their peers
and family. Most of the people who have taken the drugs are supporters but there
are some who say that the drug may have certain things that are wrong with it
that haven’t fully been looked into which makes it unsafe. Many critics say that
because there hasn’t been a sufficient amount of research put into the lasting
effects of the drug so that doctors who prescribe it don’t really know whether
it will effect the patient negatively in the long run.
There was many things I found out by doing this project that I didn’t know
before doing this report. Beforehand I had no idea that as many children had it
as there was. I thought that a good amount of them had it but not three to five