A doctor may prescribe Ritalin for a child under age 6 based on the child's specific needs.

A doctor who's doing his job correctly will require comprehensive psychological and social evaluation of a child before prescribing Ritalin or any other behavior modifying drug.

He emphasized that he did prescribe Ritalin, but sparingly.

Someone he knows, Joey said, tried to fail a psychological exam so he would be prescribed Ritalin.

You prescribed Ritalin to him.

To help him control his outbursts, a psychiatrist at the center prescribed Ritalin, a drug that calms hyperactive youngsters.

Q. Do you think it would be better for psychiatrists instead of pediatricians to prescribe Ritalin?

Patients who have been prescribed Ritalin have been known to sell their tablets to others who wish to take the drug recreationally.

I have, however, been prescribing Ritalin for attention deficit disorder for almost 20 years.

Dr. Sax says he is now often asked to prescribe Ritalin for otherwise normal kindergartners who can't sit still to concentrate on reading.