Prescription drug use in the pediatric population fell from 2002 to 2010, but the use of birth control and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications rose, the FDA reported.
Outpatient contraceptive prescriptions jumped 93% from 2002 to 2010 among kids 17 and younger, Grace Chai, PharmD, of the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in Silver Spring, Md., and colleagues found.
ADHD drug scripts rose 46% over the same period in the national analysis of prescription databases reported in the July issue of Pediatrics.
via Medical News: FDA: ADHD Drugs Top Rx for Kids – in Pediatrics, General Pediatrics from MedPage Today.
Birth control and chronic sedation have replaced traditional parenting.
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Drugs for kids is an atrocity. Children born in the 1990s and 2000s were born into a high-density, stimulus-rich environment of electronics that provide instantaneous gratification. They’ve become “addicted” to stimulation, and today’s teachers just can’t compete for their attention. If we prevent the next generation from undergoing a comparable stimulation addiction, we’ll probably see that the time-honored efforts of teachers will once again have their intended effect on children.
Kids don’t need drugs. No one has isolated, cloned and expressed an ADHD gene. ADHD is something invented by psychiatrists to provide justification for Big Pharma’s continued pushing of Ritalin-type drugs.
Dr. Joseph Lennox
http://www.lennoxtutoring.com
Dr. Lennox, thanks for your insightful comments. I am the father of two sons now in their early 20’s. My wife and I successfully managed to avoid the peer pressure of creating tiny drug addicts. Of course, we all know it has become way too easy to drug your children than to work on your own parenting skills.