{"product_id":"9780553379068","title":"Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a book as provocative and newsworthy as \u003ci\u003eListening to Prozac\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDriven to Distraction,\u003c\/i\u003e a physician speaks out on America's epidemic level of diagnoses for attention deficit disorder, and on the drug that has become almost a symbol of our times: Ritalin.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1997 alone, nearly five million people in the United States were prescribed Ritalin—most of them young children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder.  Use of this drug, which is a stimulant related to amphetamine, has increased by 700 percent since 1990.  And this phenomenon appears to be uniquely American: 90 percent of the world's Ritalin is used here.  Is this a cause for alarm—or simply the case of an effective treatment meeting a newly discovered need? Important medical advance—or drug of abuse, as some critics claim?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLawrence Diller has written the definitive book about this crucial debate—evenhanded, wide-ranging, and intimate in its knowledge of families, schools, and the pressures of our speeded-up society.  As a pediatrician and family therapist, he has evaluated hundreds of children, adolescents, and adults for ADD, and he offers crucial information and treatment options for anyone struggling with this problem.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRunning on Ritalin\u003c\/i\u003e also throws a spotlight on some of our most fundamental values and goals.  What does Ritalin say about the old conundrums of nature vs.  nurture, free will vs.  responsibility? Is ADD a disability that entitles us to special treatment? If our best is not good enough, can we find motivation and success in a pill? Is there still a place for childhood in the performance-driven America of the late nineties?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026568102128,"sku":"9780553379068","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780553379068_p0.jpg?v=1763717522","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780553379068","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}