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.
Kiss my fucking ass Tragedies that happen at most school even universities, have done with students committing suicide and student shootings. Many people and reporters always diagnosed these students with either a psychiatric problem or some other disorder the child has had while growing up. They really don’t get the real story of what really influenced these people to do what they did and did they try to show signs that they needed help. People already think that they solved and investigated the problem of the V-tech shooting. They already think that the man Chos was on antidepressants and was seeking psychiatric help.
John Huang AP Lit&Comp, Pd.7 9/25/11 Title of the Article: Bullying As True Drama Source: The New York Times Author’s Name: Danah Boyd and Alice Marwick Date Published: September 22, 2011 Speaker: Danah Boyd and Alice Marwick Audience: Adults in general who have relations with children who may or may not be bullied or be the bully, Kids who have been either a victim of bullying or are the perpetrators Subject: Those who get bullied or are the bullies don’t have the independent strength to admit that they are being victimized or hurting others in the case of the bullies, and that adults need to form a program or a system that can help them grow to see that they are either a victim or the bully. Context: It’s on a newspaper so the authors are limited in space to write more about their opinion on bullying Argument: Adults
Firstly, Brown uses expert opinion. He quotes D Lum from the Maroondah hospital and the shocking fact that young children, whilst drunk are being sexually assaulted. This would position his readers, mostly parents to see the dark side of alcohol and teenagers as no parent would want for their teenage child to be sexually assaulted. Secondly he uses statistics. Brown highlights the 300% increase in hospital admissions of drunken teenagers.
The video, “The Medicated Child,” is a PBS documentary on the rising numbers of children diagnosed with significant mental disorders, from ADHD to Bipolar disorder. This also shows the significance of heavy medication of those children with largely untested drugs. Something that was only touched on briefly by one specialist is that these untested drugs are being pumped into our children with little- to no- testing for the effects on children, in general, as the human brain is still vastly not understood and to introduce stimulants and depressants into a developing brain is borderline insane itself, and worth of a disgnosis for heavy medication itself. When interviewing the representative of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), he stated
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.
because of this, to survive they resulted to criminal acts, which lead to a lot of violence and abuse. Also drugs became an issue when the settlers introduced them to alcohol, for example “Simon recounts…the time he first tasted alcohol, and how that, and later on harder drugs, worked to numb him of the blinding rage and violence he felt.”(Simon, B., 2012). Another effect was the Aboriginals being denied to the cultural and spiritual tradition within the community and country. In conclusion, the stolen generation effected the younger indigenous children’s a lot through an individual, relational and collective view. References: Bretherton, D., & Mellor, D. (2006).
They do things that if they weren’t on the drug they otherwise wouldn’t do. Meth has caused an increase in crime rate, domestic violence, sexual abuse within the home and has devastated a number of families. People become desperate in their addiction and will do anything to get their drug including stealing from family, children and spouses and becoming neglectful parents. The film discussed addicts who put their children in danger in their homes because of their severe addiction to meth. Other addicts would commit crimes such as breaking and entering and theft to feed their
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
The use of drugs such as cocaine, crack, heroin and marijuana has been proved to cause unbelievable damage and harm to the body and brain. In the Article “Info Facts-Heroin” reports that thousands of heroin addicts die from overdoses each year and heroin users are also at great risk of getting aids from the use of unclean needles. By legalizing drugs every one would have the right to consume drugs without any restrictions which would lead hospitals to be more filled, more school dropouts would occur, and more crack babies raise the stakes of legalizing drugs. Knowing what drugs do to users has been the solid basis for my saying no to drugs and why I believe they should not be