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