I just wanted to address this issue because I believe it has become a great issue/tragedy in the past few decades. Apparently, up till about 1990s most of the youth were seen to be as normal kids then somehow the pharmaceutical industry with some pawn doctors convinced most of the general public that our kids were in fact sick. They had a chemical imbalance and the only way to treat it was through prescription medication such as adderall, ritalin, prozac, etc... With little to zero sound science and an every expanding definition of disorders such as ADHD the rate of kids now on prescription drugs has grown astronomically. The pharmaceutical industry can't even support itself and many case studies that they tried to prove the drugs were harmless turned out horrible wrong thus destroying the negative case studies. University studies couldn't even come up with any benefits for kids that were diagnosed with ADHD to improving their condition through these prescription drugs.
I am glad I grew up before this over medication of the youth. The sad thing is that the "medical" industry now has definitions for disorders that almost any kids can be labeled as "imbalanced" (ignoring the fact that the actual imbalance comes after they start taking the prescription drugs). Who didn't twitch in their seats at school when they were young? Who wasn't nervous before certain tests at school? This has to stop and I would like for everyone that knows someone that is prescribing their kids to tell them to take a step back and actually do some research. Just because a teacher says the kids shows signs of ADHD shouldn't mean you should go out and start drugging the kid immediately. I believe these prescription drugs are as bad or worse than almost any illegal drug. Join the fight and end the tyranny of the drug companies against the children.
While there are a few cases that perhaps a child can benefit from closely monitored prescription a vast majority of kids are diagnosed and prescribed improperly.
