WTF?

[conuly]

Spending Soars for Children's Behavioural Meds

They're now giving behavioural medication for children under five? Ritalin? For AD(H)D for children under five years of age? What is WRONG with people? At five years old, do you really know if the child isn't just being a little absentminded and hyper? You know, like five year olds are supposed to be? If they're prescribing medication that early, can we really trust people to actually try teaching these kids how to behave and control themselves? More importantly, do we really know what these medications do to young children when they take them for several years?

Of course, I don't really know enough about this to talk. So I'll hush now.

Comments

Trouble is...

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

The problem is, though, they're *not* medicating the aggressive brat kids, they're medicating the ones that just behave oddly. You might remember that it's normally the little shitheads that are obedient enough to endear themselves to adults, then they turn around and beat up on the "weird" kid as soon as they know the adults won'will find an excuse to not notice.

Re: Trouble is...

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Granted.