avior is not a medical disorder, but an adaptation to a social situation. In effect, it turns our attention from the family or school and from seriously considering the idea that the "problem" could be in the structure of the social system. Social problems become medicalized, and the targets of therapeutic activity are more likely than not to be the socially impaired child.Children are being drugged unnecessarily. Children who are sad, anxious, angry aggressive or just plain disobedient are viewed as having and attention deficit. Even shy, dreamy children are being drugged. It seems as though childhood itself has come to be seen as a disease. By turning to pharmaceutical drugs as a quick-fix solution to their children’s more disappointing characteristics, parents are virtually bringing up a generation of people who have little sense of personal responsibility. Instead of learning how to improve themselves and the world they live in, children are being taught that they are somehow defective and should rely on drugs to make them “right.”God has given the knowledge to researchers and developers of pharmaceuticals to design drugs in order for people to benefit from the use. If doctors abuse the privilege to diagnose afflictions and distribute medicines, then society will become corrupt with drugs and illegal selling of drugs. Physicians must respect the privilege and give drugs to those who are medically in need of it and not just as a pacifier. Ritalin can be a help if the proper research and study is done to determine what the drug actually effects in the body and who requires the drug for healthier living and better focus on life....
