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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is cruel to not at least have the child examined to see if this might help him.  Do you also refuse to get his eyes examined or refuse to buy glasses?[/quote]

Not remotely the same thing.[/quote]

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Putting glasses on a child's face does not involve putting a psychotropic drug into a developing body.[/quote]

You do know that using stimulant medication to treat ADHD is one of the most studied uses of any drug for any application in the history of psychiatry, right?  And that this research has been going on since at least 1963?

People who are reflexively anti-medication (in my experience, often people who don't have or personally know any kids with ADHD) like to claim that we don't know the effects of these drugs on developing minds.  They are wrong.  We absolutely do know.  We know the effects of these drugs on minds of people who were diagnosed as children and are now in their 60s and have been taking stimulant medication the entire time.  We have 56 years of studies.  We really do understand these specific drugs pretty well.

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