There are an estimated five million adhd kids living in America today. Some even place the number at more than five million. Of those children diagnosed with this disorder around three million are medicated each and every year with dangerous drugs intended to control the symptoms of the disorder. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is a mental disorder that causes the child to have problems with being inattentive, overactive, impulsive, or even a combination of all of these. It is without a doubt the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorder among children and between three and five percent of children are believed to have the disorder.
Thanks in large part to the media and the ease with which information is available these days more and more parents are reluctant to have their children medicated. They are not alone in this as there are significantly more doctors and healthcare providers who are also realizing that medicating children for ADHD is not always the best course of action to take. The reasons why parents and some experts are reluctant to medicate is because the drugs most routinely and commonly prescribed, such as the stimulant drug Ritalin for example, have very serious side-effects.
The side-effects can be as innocuous as a lack of appetite or sleep disturbances to depression, suicide, and even death in some instances. Clearly very drastic and alarming risks that make the dangers very real indeed. Another cause for concern is the fact that so many millions of adhd kids are being medicated resulting in a huge population of children being drugged. This has never happened before anywhere else in the world and frankly is very disturbing to say the least. Experts that continue to support the idea of mass-medicating our children do not know what the long term results of this will be.
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