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/PAT’ASKOLA has: been liv-
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The North Vancouver mother af

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disorders’ beli¢ves the years of drtg
cheraps! hers V2-vear-old) son
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“they couldn't determine if hisibrain’:

was damaged by the convulsions or.
the drugs,"' she said, > :

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sing a-fence.

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drugs for her senvand: fears: mins
or the physicaliand. mental ghosts

he now lives with daily drela direst

result of past. drug therapy

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NORTIL: Vancouver moter) Pat

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‘terrible twos’ forev
But her search
alternate therapies, :

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tary schoolshe. was) attending ‘said
She way 100. active: cae
2 Hesremained on the drug from
May 1983 to dune 1984,

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ted -1o-commit.suicide by shreaten-
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sid Askolacees ge. 0 ;

AS sixeweek oneurological:: arid

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ay pldcementeing a!
behavior modification, program, in,

“Hospital led ta

aresidential treatment Centre:

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no matter how much f love him.”
Citizens’: Commissions.on

tHuman Rights CCHR): member

Margaret: Rommann said the local
prescription of: Ritalin tor; children
as. voting 2s three years of age is:
Inereabing.
“Parents have gocto knew tha,

‘before they) are. snowballed ¢ into

For tit Cartier “look atthe:
and,,effects: of Ritalin: on