10,000 Toddlers Prescribed ADHD Drugs like Adderall And Ritalin - Polidicks

[QUOTE=blehblehbleh;44877569]What? No. This is definitely the doctors' fault. They should know that ADHD medication shouldn't be prescribed until age 6 at the earliest. The parents should hopefully know better too, but they are definitely less at fault overall.[/QUOTE] I'm not saying the doctors aren't to blame, but a pushy parent who is doing "the best for their child". Aside to standing up to them and being a parent to take and spend time with their kids. besides these kids can't sign, let alone pay for the drugs.

And yet, the family values types will continue to have their focus on the legal mj market in Colorado and complain how kids will have easier access. But of course since this is doctor sanctioned therll be no outrage at all. our health system is a joke...

As someone who's diagnosed ADHD, this is deplorable. Meds are there to help individuals who have psychological issues overcome their own problems. Using them to dope up and pacify infant children is downright fucking evil. The misuse of medication is an extremely personal issue for me. It delegitimizes potentially important treatment while robbing the most vulnerable people in our society of the basic right to determine what goes into their own body. It's absolutely vile, no other way to put it.

[QUOTE=explodingape;44877259]I wonder if this will cause any physical developmental issues with the kid when they grow up. The article talks about things like loss of appetite or stunted growth, I'm talking more mental. The brain is in a very important stage at age 2, stims might not be the best for that.[/QUOTE] Loss of appetite and stunted growth should [I]already[/I] make these drugs a non-option for developing children, [B]especially[/B] during the first 6-7 years when their bodies are growing and changing as well as their minds. I'd say the possible mental side-effects this might have on a 2-year-old's mind could really screw up how the brain first begins to process and take in new information. Let me put it this way. Think of your first memory, the very first bit of life you can possibly remember. Got it? Mine was when my old house was getting demolished and my current house was being built, I vividly remember a firetruck in the driveway on standby in case a fire started during the demolition. At this point, we begin [I]really[/I] exploring the world, as humans we have instinctual curiosity and endless amounts of emotions. I was hyper-active as fuck when I was that age and I guarantee most children are, once that memory hits the brain for the first time it will only create more, and as far as I'm concerned these drugs would only inhibit this process and attempt to slow down a child's mind which should be the very [I]very[/I] last resort. I understand in some cases this is necessary to some extent, but there has to be another way, at the very least an alternative to medicine. I've heard about this great new thing called "good parenting", but apparently it hasn't caught on yet.

I say ban the medicine entirely, remove the syndrome from archives and everything and pretend it never existed and treat people who say otherwise like they're lunatics, the problem is now nonexistent.

[QUOTE=meatwad253;44879018]Stupid. The drug is so addictive.[/QUOTE] Not to mention the long term side effects of these drugs haven't been studied thoroughly

[QUOTE=Starpluck;44877818]If their brains develop to accommodate the excessive amounts of dopamine (by reuptaking it much quicker) then these kids are going to be depressed as fuck when older.[/QUOTE] Drugs will solve this problem.

I cured my attention-deficit and brain fog with proper diet. It is really sad babies eat this shit without consent.. fucking stupid parents creating even more stupid children

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;44877866]A note on the pitfalls of over and under-diagnosis and the results thereof. <interesting words that you should read>[/QUOTE] to sum up what zonesylvania posted, for lazy readers, is that ADHD is considered to be underdiagnosed in many cases. speaking on the article: providing a number of toddlers that were prescribed an ADHD drug is not an indicator of ADHD overdiagnosis, it's an indicator of incompetent doctors. note that [I]the physician in the article said nothing about overdiagnosis[/I], just that it's stupid and dangerous to give strong ADHD drugs to toddlers, which [I]of course[/I] it is. what's needed above all else is more research.

These doctors need to be fired.

coming from somebody with diagnosed adhd, it's not a disease, it's a fucking symptom and drugs are prescribed to help deal with them. At that age, there are no symptoms that would cause any fucking problem with anything. I don't get it.