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And you thought steroid use by athletes was controversial. What about the idea of non-ADHD kids taking ADHD stimulant drugs like Adderall and Ritalin to enhance their academic performance? Apparently it's happening more and more, especially among college-age males--the drugs sharply help with focus and make you need less sleep.
But the news is that "a study in the journal Nature found that parents of children who do not suffer from ADHD or ADD would be willing to give their younger kids neurological stimulants in order to help them power through their academic experience," writes parentdish.com.
Granted, being at the top of the class is a mandate from some moms to their kids, but at this length? Yes. Even some doctors are prescribing these meds for kids who don't need them. The side effects are few and are relatively mild like nausea and dehydration, so some parents say why not?
What about you?
Would you give your non ADHD child ADHD drugs to help him/her excel at school?
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Comments (17)
Pends if they really have ADD. Then yes. But if not no.
I find this amazing! How many years now have we ADHD parents been drug through the mud for using stimulant medications for a medically diagnosed condition... called poor parents, absentee parents, and the like. Because ADHD didn't exist... WE WERE JUST DOPING UP OUR KIDS SO WE DIDNT HAVE TO BE PARENTS!!! So here we are "academically doping" and all the sudden all the stigma of the far reaching implications of giving our children stimulant medication is downplayed to mild nausea and dehydration and the meds are now actually enhancing academic performance and not a chemical babysitter... PARDON ME WHILE I CHOKE ON THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF THIS NEW PERSPECTIVE!!
I'm an ADHD Adult, I can't believe a loving parent would knowing give their child an upper. They wouldn't be able to sit still long enough to learn. The reason uppers work for the ADHD & ADD patient is things work the opposite. Downers work like upper, uppers work like downers. Coffee makes me sleepy, sugar I don't get the high, Just the crash! Can't drive and eat sugar!. Can't sleep unless I take meds, with in 1 hr of sleeping. Can't stay on task without meds, even taking late affects me.
Wow. That really F'ed up!
"The side effects are few and are relatively mild like nausea and dehydration, so some parents say why not?"
Ummm... I think physically changing the brain chemistry of your child counts as a side effect!!!! It's been shown drugs like ritalin permanently change how the brain is shaped and develops.
That is DISGUSTING... I'm an adult with ADHD as well, and my youngest boy has it to. he is on meds, but my oldest doesn't have it and there is no way i would ever put my child on any medication that he doesn't really need. M1ch3113Ann is so right when saying the ADHD and ADD meds are uppers. so for someone that don't need them, should not be taking them. by doing this people are going to raise drug-es. that's right... if you are a mom or dad giving your non-ADHD or ADD child medication that is typically prescribed for ADHD, and ADD... then all your doing is turning your child into a Tweak-er. Imagine this... your child has grown to an adult. you would like to say that your sun or darter is a doctor or a Broker, but no... there not, they are living in a drug house. making Meth and dealing Meth they are now a problem to society. A true blue danger to the young, impressionalbe teens of that decade. Your child now a man or woman looks nothing like a human any more. he or she's skin is gray in color and she/he is bleeding from holes in there face from picking at what they thought were bugs in there skin. He or She has done immoral thing to keep the drugs pumping though there vanes. nasty thing, thing like prostitution. theft, muggings. what is really sad is unfortualty a drug-es sexual genatila still work so they will inevidably have children in this world. ROCK ON that sound great. PEOPLE UES YOUR BRANS.
need i say any more
myself and my child are both living with ADHD. i am wracking my brain trying to find a way around putting my sweet baby on these medications. she is currently on them, it is a last resort, and it makes me sad. i refuse to take them and i am managing as best i can without them, and truthfully that is not well at all. i cannot fathom that someone would be so cruel as to put a child who didn't actually NEED these meds on them. this is disgusting.
As a mother who's son has adhd.. I am gonna say one thing... I WOULD TRADE A CHILD WHO GETS STRAIT F'S FOR MY SON TO BE NORMAL.
I LOVE HIM AND ALL BUT HE HAS TO TAKE THESE MEDS OR HE GETS SUSPENDED FOR BEHAVIORS HE IS UNABLE TO CONTROL. YET SOME STINKING CONTROL FREAK OF A MOM, OR DAD... WANTS THE RIGHT TO START THEIR KID ON DRUGS THAT ARE NOT MENT FOR THEM.. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????
WOW.. THIS COUNTRY IS SO MESSED UP..
My niece has ADHD and has to be on medication just to make it through one day of school and still has difficulty. My daughtter does not have ADHD and I would not ever give her my nieices medication. It is a stimulant with the possibility of children who don't need it becoming addicted, not to mention changing their brain chemistry. This is dangerous business.
As an adult with suspected ADHD and having one of my children with also suspected of having it. We take nothing to control it. The possible risks to even find out is more then I am willing to take the chance on. We use diet and other means to control this. I cannot imagine giving that medication to people who don't need it. Do they not realize that these are a high form grade of speed? Do they not realize there could actually be a lot more serious side effects? Not to mention getting addicted to a drug! No grades are worth that.