My brother in law has worked at an up state school in SC for years as non teaching staff. He has stated many times that in the morning prior to class start there's a line at the nurses office for dispensing of drugs. The line has gotten so big they had to move it to a different part of the school to handle the volume. He says it's Orwellian. Scary, vary scary. If these children know the only way to deal with life's issues is with drugs, what will they seek as adults to help?
What are they getting? Part of the reason for the long line is that schools don't allow kids to take anything at all now without it being given out by the school nurse. So a common medication like a Tylenol or asthma medication that a kid used to just bring from home and take himself, now has to be dosed out from the school nurse. Been through that many times. My wife goes through it every day as a teacher too.
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And by the way, aspirin and Motrin are psychoactive drugs. Most common pain relievers are.
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And Lanza wasn't on any medication.
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In the old days there was no such thing as ADD or ADHD.
Sure there was. They just didn't know what it was.
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Back then if a kid got out of line then he/she was swatted and humiliated in front of the entire classroom.
It worked wonders.
It worked on the lazy kids. It didn't work at all on kids with ADD/ADHD. They were just labeled as dumb or incorrigable, and they were often given up on.
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Here is an interesting link on the subject of these add & adhd 'Narcotics' -aka- Psychoactive Drugs.[/QUOTE]They don't prescribe narcotics for ADD/ADHD. They prescribe stimulants. And they prescribe them at doses far below the levels of those used by people that abuse the same drugs, so no, they aren't 'high', or 'stoned' or otherwise 'drugged out' in class like many people mistakenly believe.
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A link. I'll let others determine the significance, validity, or truth of the below. Don't kill the messenger. It may be another sea of misinformation data, maybe not:
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I only went through a couple of those but they only make circumstantial connections. The first guy didn't have a problem because of his meds. he had a problem because he stopped taking them. The second guy never had a link established to his meds. It's just a guess.
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Lost the link, but Dr. Ignatius Piazza, founder of Front Sight Firearms Training Institute just wrote an article on his blog about this same subject.
I've always liked Piazza. But you do know he's just a chiropractor, right?
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You'll get no argument from me that our kids are overmedicated. There are far too many people who see these drugs as a kind of panacea and too many less than ethical doctors who will prescribe the medications at the drop of a hat without reliable indications of problems that warrant those prescriptions. Most of those doctors probably aren't even qualified to make the diagnosis. But just because those doctors, parents and school employees have abused and overused the medications and the medical system does not in any way mean that ADD/ADHD does not exist or that there are not kids out there who really do need to be medicated.
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I have ADHD. They didn't know what it was when I was a kid and thought I was just lazy. And believe me, the rod was not spared. It made no difference. I managed to adjust as an adult and I don't need medication. My older son is a different story.
