If anything's gonna end the human race on this planet, it's this. Insurance and pharmaceutical companies are making billions of dollars a year through unmitigated fear, coercing adults to drugging our children into zombies. Way to go, America.
If that’s the case, then a significant proportion of these children may also be mistreated with medications that they don’t need. “This report and others raises questions about whether we may not be overdiagnosing ADHD and overusing medications,” says Thomas Power, director of the center for management of ADHD at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
As pediatric neurologist Dr. William Graf says this week, “Mild symptoms are being diagnosed so readily, which goes well beyond the disorder and beyond the zone of ambiguity to pure enhancement of children who are otherwise healthy.” It’s an easy fix-it eagerness that begins in the cradle – a report issued Monday found that when pediatricians diagnose babies with gastroesophageal reflux disease, parents are “likely to want medicine, even if their doctor says it won’t help.” Even if it won’t help. That’s a troubling, reactive response.
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