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Ritalin Not a "Gateway" Drug

Ronald Bailey | 1.6.2003 2:22 AM

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The folks over at the Office of National Drug Control Policy must be relieved to hear that Ritalin is not a "gateway" drug according a Reuters report of new study in the journal Pediatrics. Now they get back to trying to ban the gateway drug that all known addicts have abused, mothers milk.

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Ronald Bailey is science correspondent at Reason.

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