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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s all go live on a commune then! That will take the stress out of our lives! No meds! [/quote]

It's better than drugging our kids. Goodness me.

I'd really love to know how some of this drug-happy parents would react if their kid ended up on meth. The funny thing is that I think most of them would be horrified (as would I). And yet..... same thing, different place it comes from, and it's fine?

There's a major lack of critical thinking here.[/quote]

It's not the same thing because my child's medication use is being closely monitored by two doctors (psych and ped) and by involved parents who make sure medication is dosed properly and teach complementary behavior modification as well. We teach him, at an age aproriate level, the benefits and risks of medication and the importance of using it properly. And he's getting it from a legal, licensed source so it's not cut with a bunch of random and dangerous crap.[/quote]

Your blind faith in the pharmaceutical industry astounds me.

You know how 50 years ago people were sending their SN kids off to different institutions to be subjected to shock therapy and other things to 'help' them? Everyone used to do that. The government suggested it, supported it. And now, we know that it was totally the wrong thing to do.

I strongly believe that giving kids speed is going to be one of those thing that in 50 years people will look back at these primitive times and shake their heads at how clueless people were.[/quote]

It's not blind faith, it's based on a lot of research, which we do on an ongoing basis as new information comes out. I don't think we'll need to wait 50 years for our understanding of ADHD to be very different than it is today, I think in 20 years we'll know so much more and treatments will be very different, and as we know better we will do better. For now, though, we are taking all of the information out there and using it to create the best treatment plan we can for our child given the knowledge and treatment options available today.[/quote]

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