Medicine almost half the pediatricians surveyed said they send ADHD children home in an hour. (pg. ?) Many of these doctors have those children walking back out of that door so quick with their new label of ADHD, that they do not even have time to contact the teachers, look at their educational records, or have the child meet with a psychiatrist, which is all very essential. Doctors are not taking the proper time to analyze a serious problem like ADHD. One of the reasons that doctors rapidly diagnose ADHD is due to the persistence of parents. Doctors find themselves feuding with apprehensive parents that are worried that their child is ruining his/her future because of a bit of hyperactivity, or jitteriness that is apparent in the classroom or at home. They demand drugs from their doctors, and if they refused to fulfill their demand, they will find a physician that is more understanding of their views. Parents are getting to the point were they feel they need to mold their children into a little angel. They will go to any extreme, even drugs. to accomplish this. As Lawrence Diller states in Running on Ritalin, In order for them to succeed, we make them take performance enhancers.(Diller pg. 96) What he is saying is that parents want their children to succeed so much that they are making them take performance enhancers, like Ritalin. What once was looked at as normal, children interested in different things and having different skills and talents, is now analyzed as a disease that needs to be fixed with powerful drugs. After these faulty diagnoses take place, most of the time doctors prescribe stimulant drugs, such as Ritalin, Dexedrine, Adderil, and Cylert. Above all, Ritalin is the most popular stimulant to be prescribed and has a series of adverse side effects. Ritalin is actually the manufacturers name for the generic chemical methyphenidate, a derivative of amphetamine. Ritalin is similar to the street drug of speed. ...
