Guest guest Posted May 22, 2003 Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 Misty, I did Child Abuse Investigations for New York City for 10 years and worked for one year in Foster Care in Maryland. You would not believe how many children are on psychotropics and they are starting them younger and younger. What is starting to surprise me even more is that they are now diagnosing adults with ADHD and other similiar disorders and starting more fo them on psychotropics. I think it is scary ... they are coming up with stuff like ODD -- Oppositional Defiant Disorder and prescriping ... and to me, some of the kids are just bad and need a better diet and more discipline and not drugs. (and better supervision) Merle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 22, 2003 Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 This is just so sad with all the drugs that kids are on now - and we say we are a country fighting against drugs and just saying " no " to drugs??? I don't think so! There was a story in our paper just last night about a 10 year old girl who had ADHD who was on - and I can't remember the drug name, started with " D " - it wasn't Ritalin - and she just died because of seizures brought on by the drug. When are we going to learn!! Why do people put so much faith in their doctors and do anything they say!! I have a very cute - unfortunately very true - picture of a man in a white coat, and the caption reads " Contrary to popular belief, this man is not God! " How true how true. The story went on to say that the parents of this girl are now on a mission to get the word out that so many kids are mis-diagnosed and medically over-prescribed. Carol Minnick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ whole-food supplements that provide nutrients essential for the health of people, pets and plants. Visit our website <http://www.BlueGreenSolutions.com> http://www.BlueGreenSolutions.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Merle D. Murray [dcuth] Thursday, May 22, 2003 3:45 AM [s-A] Psychotropic Medication Misty, I did Child Abuse Investigations for New York City for 10 years and worked for one year in Foster Care in Maryland. You would not believe how many children are on psychotropics and they are starting them younger and younger. What is starting to surprise me even more is that they are now diagnosing adults with ADHD and other similiar disorders and starting more fo them on psychotropics. I think it is scary ... they are coming up with stuff like ODD -- Oppositional Defiant Disorder and prescriping ... and to me, some of the kids are just bad and need a better diet and more discipline and not drugs. (and better supervision) Merle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 22, 2003 Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 Because every where in our fast paced society, there is not much time for children. With two parents working it is hard to deal with difficult children. Schools don't want to deal with difficult children and a medicated child is usually a manageable child in school. It takes a lot of work and commitment to deal with children who have problems without the meidcation and many poeople are not willing to make that commitment. Other parents are unaware there are alternatives ... Merle Carol Minnick <carolminnick wrote: This is just so sad with all the drugs that kids are on now - and we say we are a country fighting against drugs and just saying " no " to drugs??? I don't think so! There was a story in our paper just last night about a 10 year old girl who had ADHD who was on - and I can't remember the drug snip, snip, snip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 22, 2003 Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 What an awful outcome to somthing that shouldn't have happened at all. I don't know if the parents will need an attorney to sort through all that, but they definitely need some advice and peace of mind on how to handle the entire situation. How emotionally devastating! Check out: '<A HREF= " www.prepaidlegal.com/k " > www.prepaidlegal.com/info/valromero</A>' for more information. Val Romero Small Business & Employee Benefit Specialist Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (505)881-8546 Office (505)804-6679 Cell Visit my website! www.prepaidlegal.com/go/valromero Making the idea of 'Equal Justice for All' a reality for all Americans. This is an unsolicited commercial E-mail message. If you would like to be removed from my future mailings about the product or opportunity of Prepaid Legal Services, Inc., and subsidiaries, please reply and type " remove " in the subject line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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