We are overmedicating people as well as kids in this country. In England, flower remedies are used instead of automatically placing children on ritalin. I used to work in social work, and I have seen how it works. When a child is 2 or 3, if they match so many symptoms in the DSM-IV, it "qualifies" them as having ADHD, and the solution is be put on ritalin. Side effects of ritalin include insomnia, joint pain, chest pain, heart palpitations, anxiety, and sometimes even some symptoms of psychosis. Yet, doctors go over those "general" side affects as if they mean nothing. Perhaps, only a few experience the worst, but what if your child is that certain part of the population that experiences the worst? It doesn't make any sense at all to put a very young child on such dangerous medications. Ritalin comes from the same family as cocaine, a form of speed. If your child couldn't settle down in the classroom, would you put them on cocaine? There are so many holistic remedies to try, such as the flower remedies, yet you never hear of them. Ritalin is an "american icon" by now. Being on ritalin has gotten to be so normal. In 1979, the APA began the ADHD diagnosis, and within a year, about 500,000 children had been placed on ritalin.
We also have a lot of chaos in our times with children. You hear newstories everyday. Children going berserk, children killing other children, children with depression, children with physical problems such as obesity. I don't believe that ritalin has been such a lifeline since its introduction. Ritalin as well as its family counterparts. Whenever you hear such a newstory, and you hear of the child being on one of these actual dangerous drugs, it is often played off with the "fact that the child was already troubled". Drugs such as ritalin, paxil, etc. do often cause pyschosis and I do wonder if we did not have so many of these medications for them to be on, would we still have as much crime
No comments:
Post a Comment