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Don't those meds affect your child's brain development at such a sensitive young age?

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Yes. And they are powerfully addictive (the amphetamine class).

Some parents decide the trade offs are worth it. [/quote]

Not OP here.  Thanks for this, but I think that I will go follow the opinions of multiple different doctors that I have seen that that medication is the best option for my child.  Moreover, the hard science of numerous medical studies show that the ADHD medicine is overwhelming safe when not abused (i.e., taken recreationally by people without ADHD), and are tremendously helpful to kids.  Moreover, the hard science shows that non-medicated ADHD people have **significant** issues, such as:

1) lagging years behind their peers in school;
2) significant social and interpersonal issues (imagine being told several hundred times a day that you are a screw up); 
3) significantly reduced income (it is tough to hold a job if you lose focus all the time) and extremely high rates of divorce (spouses don't like being ignored) in untreated adults; and
4) very high rates of depression and even suicide.

No one medicates their child without a world of consideration and thought, and there are significant certainties of not addressing your child's ADHD.   I started my child at 9, but I wish we had not waited because he was struggling for such as long time and he is so far behind in his pears in writing that I don't think he can ever catch up.  [/quote]

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