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Children And Prescription Drugs

            
             On many occasions children are given unnecessary psychiatric drugs. These children are given these drugs without knowing if they are needed. I think this is wrong. There is a certain age that once they reach you know if these drugs are neccessary but doctors are prescribing children drugs when they are only two years old. Even to me five years old is too young to know if they in fact need drugs or just special attention.
             Kindergarten teachers are recommending to some parents that their child should go on a drug called Ritalin because the child is over-active. That is only because the teacher does not want to deal with the child instead of just giving the child the special attention that he needs. That is no reason for a child to be on medication. These drugs have side effects. Many of which they do not even know. Children should not have to suffer the side effect just because the teacher is too lazy to deal with them in the right manner.
             Another reason children should not take medication is because they are not able to live a normal childhood lives. They are so out of it that they can not even play normal games with their friends. The medication is supposed to calm the child down when it also makes them look like zombies. This is not normal. Children should act like children not zombies. Making a child take medication that is not needed really effects them in bad way.
             Many new medications doctors are putting these active children on are new. That means they do not know the long-term effects of these drugs. Many years from now they could find out serious condition resulting from these drugs. I for one would not like to find out something is wrong with my child because of the drugs I made them take especially if the drugs were really not needed. .
             In conclusion, giving children medication that is not needed can be harmful. Children are supposed to be different from one another. Not every child has wonderful behavioral habits and the ones that don't should be given more attention or sent to special classes with less children so the could learn better.


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