"THE MEDICATED CHILD"
For anyone interested, particularly parents...
There will be a very good television program on PBS Frontline on Tuesday evening, April 8th at 9:00 pm called, "The Medicated Child"...which will expose the risks and benefits of prescription drugs for troubled children.
Consult your local listing should the television time differ within the nation.
There will be a very good television program on PBS Frontline on Tuesday evening, April 8th at 9:00 pm called, "The Medicated Child"...which will expose the risks and benefits of prescription drugs for troubled children.
Consult your local listing should the television time differ within the nation.
What do you do if you live in sweden? And are we talking SSRI or Valium or Ritaline? Also, can you tape it for me if everything just fails for me? (failure to watch it)
I'm going to watch this. They wanted to heavily medicate me as a child but I refused. I had an anti-depressant tried on me once as a kid and it backfired very badly, form that time on i refused all meds I'm glad I did too because I'm sure I would be even more messed up today if I had. I don't need someone tinkering with my brain to try and make me more "normal" I'm the way that I am and I want to stay that way I don't need to be given toxic chemicals just to make YOU feel better around me because I'm now a zombie thank you very much.
stuff like this drives me crazy seeing people treated like robots and being given a chemical leash shame on the big pharma companies and the doctors that co-operate with this BS.
Already haven it Tivo's, thanks for the reminder through.
It's of great interest to me as it has been suggested to me by different people that I think of medicating my 6 year old autistic daughter so that we get more than 3-6 hours of sleep a night.
I refuse to on the grounds that I don't want to alter her brain chemistry just to make my life easier and she seems to function "just fine" on the little sleep we get compared to the rest of the population.
Nothing against all the teachers out there (you should all make A LOT more money than you do) but I think sometimes the teachers and schools bring it up just to make it easier for them. Its a "quick fix" for everyone but the child. When I was young disruptive children pulled their desk into the hall and did their work there. They just required extra time, not drugs.
I read somewhere that 80% of Americans are taking some kind of pharmaceutical drug on a regular basis. That really floored me even through I knew a lot of it was due to the "Baby Boomers" getting older. That's still a HUGE portion of our population that is effectively "drugged"
The "Restless Leg Syndrome" commericals just was TOO MUCH for me. I could't believe it.
I'm sorry, I'll shut-up about it for now, I know that alot of people on this site are currently taking some kind of pharmaceutical and I don't mean to offend or invalidate someones decisions. It's only MY opinion.
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Im sorry but people that stick their children on psych drugs outta have every single psych drug there is forcibly injected into them all at once followed by a strong thwack to the skull with blunt object.(dont actually do this) These people are pyschos who cant stand the fact that there child isnt perfect and they may actually have to do work as parents. I m a childhood victum of ritalin. The the junk messed up my life something fierce.
Ok after watching this frontline I am even more pissed I'm only halfway through and I want to kill these f*****g doctors and the stupid ass parents that are throwing the whole dru gstore at their kids and not even questioning this BS. its all a big scam by big pharma companies to make billions while they destroy our children.
One scene in particular which was disturbing is that one family after learning that another family had their child streight up die on them form the same drugs their child is taking go bakc to their doctor to ask for advice and to see if they can lower the dose, the doctor then coems back and perscribes more meds... I could just jump through the screen and strangle that as*hole.
and the parents didint even question the doctor at all! WTF is going on here. parents are being lied to by doctors and teachers and being almost forced to make their kids into zombies and given dangrious drugs that will seriosuly harm their developing brains because the doctros have something to sell and get perks and kickbacks from the drug companies and the teachers get obedient drones. The parents also have somethignt o gain by buying into the idea that a magic pill will solve all of thier problems and make their kid "normal" I guess correcting a child's behavior and workign with the child is too old fashioned we jsut need to get a magic pill now to modify their behavior. after all teh doctor knows what hes doing doesn't he? does he hell! this is totoal nonsense.
the people involved in this crap are the ones that need medication not the childrent hat are being severley damaged by this crap.
Interesting program. It was frightening...
My son is medicated - and couldn't do without.
I feel lucky he has a very good and cautious psychiatrist, and that we don't live in the U.S.A. as I think there is a very different "drug culture" there... too many kids diagnosed by too many doctors.
The constructive ideas were good - about doctors brain storming, all treated kids becoming "data" so these drugs are properly studied for their efficiacy and side effects in kids. What we need is more "good science".
I can agree with that. but from my perspective over here in america its actually the exception to find these drugs being uses repsonsibly for the right reasons. the culture in america is to find a quick fix and cover over symptoms instead of actually trying to find the real problem and work to fix that problem or even to just cope with it.
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One scene in particular which was disturbing is that one family after learning that another family had their child streight up die on them form the same drugs their child is taking go bakc to their doctor to ask for advice and to see if they can lower the dose, the doctor then coems back and perscribes more meds... I could just jump through the screen and strangle that as*hole.
and the parents didint even question the doctor at all! WTF is going on here. parents are being lied to by doctors and teachers and being almost forced to make their kids into zombies and given dangrious drugs that will seriosuly harm their developing brains because the doctros have something to sell and get perks and kickbacks from the drug companies and the teachers get obedient drones. The parents also have somethignt o gain by buying into the idea that a magic pill will solve all of thier problems and make their kid "normal" I guess correcting a child's behavior and workign with the child is too old fashioned we jsut need to get a magic pill now to modify their behavior. after all teh doctor knows what hes doing doesn't he? does he hell! this is totoal nonsense.
the people involved in this crap are the ones that need medication not the childrent hat are being severley damaged by this crap.
Quoted for truth.
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I take several medications for various symptoms (comorbids?) of my AS, like ADHD and OCD. I couldn't live without them. I am higher functioning because of them, and have a real chance of being self-supporting because of them. Then again, my psych is a genius with drugs, he knows all the potential side effects and interactions and everything. He's one of a kind. My experience is that most general practicioners who are prescribing powerful psych drugs to little kids are morons and are just doing it because the parents want a quick fix and/or because the schools are forcing the parents to medicate their kids. My elementary school forced my parents to put me on Ritalin as a kid, and it made me short, but that's about it. The schools really don't want intelligent kids, they want zombies who will sit quietly and simply regurgitate what the teacher tells them. That's not learning. It makes the teacher's job easy, but it's not learning. The teachers unions would rather have classes full of drugged out kids because then the members don't have to work as hard.
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