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Devon Paige King
Boston, MA
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Devon Paige commented on the article |In response to the first topic:
I am purely appalled this is being compared to child abuse. If you were to ask any child who has been through abuse, ‘would they rather go through that or take a pill for a mental disorder’, I can guarantee the majority would choose taking a pill. Medication is definitely over prescribed nowadays, but it’s ludicrous to compare it to child abuse. At such a young age children shouldn’t be given pills for ADHD, but you have to blame the doctors for prescribing the medication, and the parents for listening to the doctors. Kids need time to grow, and they don’t need medication that could affect them in harmful ways for the future. There definitely needs to be more awareness made towards medication being over prescribed, but there should also be more attention being made to what these medications are being prescribed for: mental disorders. If you bring attention to one thing, you can’t ignore how many children and teenagers have undiagnosed mental disorders. Fix the medication problem, but also help the people who truly need it. Both are considered taboo subjects and so is their comparison in this case…Child abuse. Bring attention to all of these issues, not just one. -
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