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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.
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.
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Date: 2004-05-17 06:17 pm (UTC)They need sedatives if we're gonna medicate them.
Look at it this way: ritalin and adderal stimulate the same areas of the brain as caffeine.
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Date: 2004-05-17 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-18 04:54 am (UTC)And I'll be going to college with a prescription of adderal.
Must reason... making... money... is illegal... >