Sitting in class looking everywhere and hearing everything, but you sit there wondering, “What’s wrong with me?” All the other children are sitting still looking straight. The feeling of being abnormal because being different is wrong. No parent wants this for their child, logically the parents think it’s the right decision to medicate their child. Children should not be allowed to take prescribed medications due to how it impacts their mental state, body, and relationships with others. Medicating children does not fix them. In America, the most prescribed drugs to children is Ritalin for ADHD. Across America, parents worry that their child is different (Pearlman 4). To fix that problem they take the child to be tested. When a child gets tested for something like ADHD it usually a fifteen to twenty-minute appointment and they walk out already diagnosed (Newmark 2). A study at the National Institute of Mental Health found that some children being diagnosed as ADHD are nothing more than living their childhood (Vatz …show more content…
Which leads to parents pressuring doctors to ‘fix’ their child (Perlman 1). The children being medicated are the youngest ones in their class, but they are just expected to act older than they are (Weber 2). Society has tricked people into thinking there is only one way a child should act. It is true that some children need medicine, but four out of five do not need to be (Richard 4). Hence, that medicating children is not the best choice there are other options like changing diets and have behavioral therapy (Sanford 1). Children should not be allowed to take prescribed medications due to how it impacts their mental state, body, and relationships with others. There is one reliable research that has been conducted to show how drugs like Ritalin affects a child in their early years (Shirley 1). With all this in mind, should the world’s children be
Considering the amount of awareness that the kids are exposed to, such miserable behavior is unacceptable and heart wrenching. Percocet Withdrawal
Students who are diagnosed with the disorder can qualify for special education services. Students between the age of 4 to 17 about 9.5 percent would be showing ADHD.ADHD is identify more in males than in females, is three to four times in boys than in girls. Study has shown that boys
A study that examined different opinions regarding ADHD medications from target groups of doctors, educators, parents and children with attention disorders found that all of the participants acknowledged that these drugs caused children to “ appear sad, depressed, and irritated”(Bussing et al). Teenagers also showed low interest of using pharmaceutical treatment as a solution. Yet despite this evidence, according to the National Survey of Children's Health, 69% of children diagnosed with ADHD turn to medication as a solution (National Resource for ADHD). This is significant because it shows that people with ADHD don't want to take medication, but
The spirit catches you and you fall down: A Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures by Anne Fadiman illuminates the dilemmas, as well as barriers, persons of various cultural backgrounds can encounter daily, specifically when residing in a foreign habitation of different practices, perspectives and beliefs. This book highlights the difficulties one family must face during a clash between Hmong family cultural beliefs and western medicine. Fadiman (1997) brings our attention to these harsh realties that one can encounter when persons are unintentionally culturally incompetent through sharing the story of the Lia Lee and her parents, Nao Kao and Foua, who look for guidance from western doctors to assist their spiritual
Those without ADHD who were treated at a young age, 29% of them abused drugs by their mid-20s. In boys who were treated at an older age, 44% were found to have substance use disorders later on.
Parents, teachers and even doctors need to be better educated in knowing what to look for and how to prevent prescription drug abuse. Parents need to be taught that their medication is not safe in a medicine cabinet where kids can get a hold of it. They need to be taught safe storage and the proper way to dispose of medication especially controlled substances.7 There is an ad campaign out right now that I saw on TV today educating parents about the medications in their house and how dangerous it could be for an adolescent who is looking for meds. Doctors also need to be knowledgeable when it comes to prescribing medication.
Most of the time children gravitate towards certain risky behaviors is because they are lacking attention and supervision from parent. This affects them the most because they are getting the right guidance the child needs in order to cope with his/her
They believe that these perfectly “healthy schoolchildren” would act much differently in a more “natural outdoor environment.” Although researchers have discovered brain differences and evidence of impairment in daily activites in those who suffer from ADHD, there are many who view ADHD "symptoms" as “an extreme expression of normal human behavior”. These researchers use the term neurodiversity to describe genetic variations
Student Athletes Being Tested for Drugs What would you do if your child or children were snorting heroin and/or grinding up adderall and snorting that? Would you get them tested for drugs? Hispanic boys and colored girls have seen the biggest jump in drug use. They are not only using alcohol or marijuana, but they are also snorting heroin and grinding adderall and snorting that as well. Adderall is a medication that is used to treat attention deficit disorders.
These hyper-vigilant parents, or over involved, restrict their child’s freedom as a result of having a fear based perspective on the world which causes the child to have anxiety and create the same fear.
Everyone wants the best for their children. No one wants their sweet child to take part in drugs, crime, violence, profanity, and racism, so these behaviors should definitely not be encouraged. However, it is naive to hide the existence of these behaviors. Children should be able to engage in critical thinking. But, the Americans people should have a say in what children are exposed to.
“The child 's only advocate is the parent who lacked the courage to apply discipline” (Guelph Murphy 2006). The children wouldn 't be so out of control if their parents just applied discipline when they start acting up. “These days parents go to the internet, take self- administered surveys, and diagnose their children and choose a medication without ever stepping foot in a psychiatrist 's office” (Guelph Murphy 2006). Parents nowadays trust people on the internet more than a psychiatrist.
One in ten children and adolescents will experience a period of major depression (“Mental Health Myths and Facts”). Many avoid the topic of mental health like the plague. In truth, people should be able to talk about mental illness and its repercussions on society and the individual. A minority of those affected with mental illnesses get help. Therefore, it is important to discuss possible solutions to helping those who suffer get treatment.
Talking to kids about drugs can be difficult. Having to explain why drugs are bad for them and why they should not consume them can be hard. I have seen from my own experience kids from ages seven through twelve seeing people on drugs. They have seen them in public spaces. For example, my eight and twelve year old nieces and I went to 7-eleven to buy some chips, then we noticed a lady screaming and walking back and forth outside of 7-eleven.
On the contrary, the assumption that “the majority” should not be taught about mental illnesses is false. The assumption that children and teenagers cannot handle learning about mental illnesses is also false. Since over 20 percent of teens have a severe mental condition, “there are people all around us that are coping with some sort of mental illness” (Fader n.p.). In a group of five friends, chances are at least one of them has a mental illness. Since mental illnesses affect behavior, even the friends of someone who has a mental disorder can be affected.