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[quote=Anonymous][quote]There are many conclusions one could come to about why people on Medicaid are more likely to have their toddlers prescribed these drugs. One thing to remember is that more affluent people have the time and means to get other help - a Ritalin prescription is relatively inexpensive. The kind of help those of you without ADHD kids are envisioning - and remember that ADHD is often comorbid with other difficult to treat conditions like dyspraxia and and high functioning autism - is time-consuming and expensive, rarely paid for by insurance. So quick to judge parents when what's really missing is a good support system[/quote]

I think medication can be extremely helpful for some parents who have tried many other avenues and don't judge them. what is upsetting is doctors prescribing to such young kids before other interventions have been attempted. If the drug industry could fund parenting classes, with babysitting, and family therapy, that would be great.

We do not medicate our child. But I have a job flexible enough that I can take off time to take my kids to appointments. We make enough money that we can pay the out of pocket costs for therapy of all sorts. We have the time  and mental and emotional resources to devote to our child, and we have the education to be on top fo research, to be proactive and to try as hard as we can. Even so, it is stressful and our lives are not under other kinds of stress: poverty, crime, addiction, few resources. We can blame parents, we can blame doctors, we can blame the drug industry, but unfortuately the issues are deeply entrenched social and economic ones. [/quote]

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