by Violet Scott

Created on: November 29, 2008   Last Updated: April 23, 2012

There are many reasons not to medicate our children with prescribed drugs for ADD and ADHD. Some are medical, some are behavioral, and some are moral or ethic reasons. Before deciding whether or not you should administer prescribed drugs for these disorders,  you have, as a parent, an obligation to your child to research and study all known facts about what you are putting into their bodies.

You have the right to reject a doctors prescription, and get a secondary opinion on treatment options. You have a responsibility to make the right decision for your child's welfare and well being. Just because a doctor or teacher tells you what to do with your child, it does not necessarily mean that they know what is best for them or your family. You have a right to stand up a say " wait a minute"

Parents and guardians all over our nation are being pressured by schools and their own family doctors to give psychiatric drugs to their children. School counselors, administrators, teachers, and physicians all frequently use intimidation in order to get parents to use psychiatric drugs to modify their children's behavior in the classroom.

Remarks are made as to the inability to teach a child due to ADD or ADHD, and suggestions of a bleak future of delinquency are often referenced in order to emotionally blackmail a parent. Some schools even threaten to call child protective services with allegations of neglect. Sometimes, they will even testify against parents in court, all in order to dose children with stimulant drugs, such as Ritalin or Adderall.

Prescribed Stimulants were first used for behavior control of children in the 1950's. By the 1970's, there were already an estimated 100,00 to 200,00 receiving these drugs. In 1999 the DEA warned that there had been a 6 fold increase in Ritalin production between 1990 and 1995. The US now uses about 90% of the world's Ritalin.

The number of children on these drugs has only continued to escalate, including a 3 fold increase of prescription stimulants in toddlers ages 2 to 4.

Out of 53 million kids enrolled in school, it is estimated that more than 5 million are taking prescription stimulant drugs.

It is crucial for parents and consumers alike to understand that these drugs are not being prescribed to support a diagnosis, but rather, the other way around. The diagnosis was developed in order to support the use of drugs to subdue unwanted classroom behavior.

The diagnosis is segregated into 3 main types; hyperactivity, inattention,

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