If a physician diagnoses children, or perhaps an adult for that matter, as having ADHD, they are expected to prescribe certain drugs. On one side, a doctor may well be unwilling to prescribe the suggested drugs, because most of them will be knowledgeable with all the potential side effects, and also the severeness of some of those unwanted effects.
On the flip side, if a doctor refuses to prescribe the typical ADHD prescribed drugs, they run the risk of grappling with disciplinary action. Quite often, mums and dads of ADHD children find themselves in a nearly identical situation. Quite possibly they have already heard several of the horror tales concerning these drugs, but are afraid to reject treatment for their sons and daughters because it might result in them being deemed useless parents.
In the United States for example, plenty of mums and dads of ADHD boys and girls have received threats from school headmasters and school psychologists. If they refuse to allow their kids be placed on ADHD prescribed drugs, they’re told that they might well lose custody of their children, for the reason that they are failing their child’s academic needs.
In Australia, there’s also talk of making ADHD screening obligatory, and if kids are found to have ADHD, mums and dads will no longer have any sort of say as far as treatment plans are concerned. Although this might sound like a exceedingly caring type of approach on the surface, it is actually far from it after you consider it from a different point of view.
Several young ones have already perished as a direct consequence of traditionally prescribed ADHD drugs. Some have succumbed to heart failure, while quite a few have taken their own lives. Suicidal thoughts and tendencies are in fact, one of the acknowledged and well documented side effects.
Admittedly, the FDA (United States Food and Drug Administration) requires the producers of ADHD medication to print a “Black Box Warning” on all packaging and also accompanying literature in an effort to alert mums and dads of the potential risks involved. That being said, what good can a warning do if mums and dads are in reality restricted from acting on such alerts?


