Children blamed for hyperactivity 'are victims of poor parenting'

By Maxine Frith, Social Affairs Correspondent

21 July 2003

Hundreds of thousands of children prescribed the drug Ritalin for hyperactivity might simply be the victims of lax parenting, new evidence suggests.

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