Also, the website, www.bpkids.org states “a majority of teens with untreated bipolar disorder abuse alcohol and drugs. Any child or adolescent who abuses substances should be evaluated for mood disorder.” Regarding treatments and adjustments, safety must be immediately assessed. Bipolar patients are at high risk for suicide, and youths are at even greater risk. Trudy Carlson is the author of the very compelling book The Life of a Bipolar Child. In this book, Carlson tells of her trials and tribulations raising her bipolar son Ben, and there are many incredible challenges.
In the documentary they also displayed the terrible Columbine shooting that occurred in which two teens took many lives and one of them was on prescription drugs as well. It’s just crazy; I don’t think that just because a child is displaying acts of being hyper or just being a kid should not mean that they should be labeled as a child with ADD or ADHD and pretty much force them to take these drugs that have extreme side effects. The Neurologist Fred Baugman even said himself how frightening it is that kids those days were easily diagnosed with ADHD especially by school
It was stated several times that these anti-psychotic medications are used to treat adults with bipolar disorder and their side effects have never been studied in children, so these parent are using their children as what I would call a “lab rat” some sort of science experiment, unbelievable! The treatment of a “temper tantrum” is a good parent. The one thing that really upset me was after the report of the four year old girls death there was another parent whom watched the news story about her, she seemed genuinely concerned being her son takes five or six different anti-psychotic medication she made an appointment to address her concerns, them leaves with another medication. Wow! I have strong opinions on medicating children.
The reason it is such a big problem is because it can lead to over dosing and possible dying. So with all these teens abusing such drugs, groups form to keep these children from losing there lives over such a widely ranged event. The Church of Scientology, founded by L. Ron Hubbard, is one of the groups helping
Web. 11 June 2012. Judith Warner wrote an articled titled “Parents Created This Problem, and Must Address It,” where she tackles the continually dangerous and rising issue of students who are using drugs to make them focus in school and on school work. The drugs being abused are most commonly Ritalin and Adderall, which is medication prescribed to people with A.D.H.D., but however are being used by a countless number of students. Warner argues that this is very dangerous to kids and the pressure of parents on their kids to do well in school
In the article “Methamphetamine: Are Tougher Anti-Meth Laws Needed?” Rusty Payne, spokesman for United States Drug Enforcement Administration, says, “Parents are consumed with getting their next high, they completely neglect everything around them, including their children.” When a meth user comes off of the high meth produces, often times they sleep for days on end. While in the process of coming off a meth high, a mother let her seven month old drown. Methamphetamine can enter a child’s bloodstream from coming in contact with someone cooking or smoking meth. When officers searched meth labs in 2003, seventy percent of children had toxic chemicals in their system. Children who come in contact with methamphetamine on a daily basis can develop cancer or liver, kidney, spleen, or brain damage.
Christina Grimes November 11, 2008 English Composition 120 Mrs. D. Tatum Paper #2 Cause/Effect Crack Cocaine: The Harmful Effects The use of crack cocaine, an extremely addictive and potentially deadly drug, results in many negative effects. Whether using or experimenting with crack cocaine, very seldom do people understand the severity of the drug, or realize the effects that causes dramatic changes in their life. When broken into two main categories crack cocaine has short and long-term effects. The effects of using crack cocaine enables detrimental, emotional, and mental aspects of a drug user’s life. Like most other illicit drugs, crack cocaine remains extremely insidious, because even with the possibility of death, drug addicts continue to use without caution.
As I began to think about what I wanted to write my essay about, I thought of all the topics in education that I would like to know more about. I finally choose ADD/ADHD and the use of Ritalin as my subject matter. Not being a parent or an experienced educator as of yet, I see America’s propensity to over medicate reaching our youngest population. I think the statement by Dr. Breggin is quite profound, “When we drug millions of children to make them more compliant and easier to manage at home and in school, it says more about our society’s distorted values than about our children” (Breggin 1998). I know from my experience in the health care profession, that Americans believe in medication to create a better life for themselves.
Behavioral Problems: Parental substance abuse can be destructive to a family and the relationship that exists within the unit. Children that are subjected to drugs as a baby has a higher risk of substance abuse, academic problems, behavior problems, and violence. Children who come from families involved with substance abuse often has impulsive behavior (Feaster, 1996). Addiction: “Alcoholism and drugs abuse in a family creates patterns in families” (Substance Abuse Training Tri-Town Head Start, 2007). Children who have parents that abused drugs or alcohol are at a much higher risk of becoming addicts.
Title: Nation Rx: Sacrificing children for profit The use or over use of psychotropic drugs today in the America is becoming a serious problem that not many people feel the need to address. As a modern developed country how for are we willing to go to control or children and adolescents? What did parents do in the years past when they had over active children or rebellious teens? Now days if children move around too much in class they referred to psychiatrist and quickly labeled as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD )patients and then placed on medications that alter not only the mood but their whole personality . Currently there is no clear definition for the condition.