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Ritalin Roulette
The Chicago Sun-Times found that "deciding which children in the Chicago area are prescribed Ritalin has more to do with where people live than how great a child's need is, the first extensive analysis of state Schedule II narcotic prescription-monitoring data shows.
Tags: Chicago; children; Ritalin; Adderall; discrimination; prescriptions; drug use; Illinois prescription-monitoring program; database mapping project