[Leica] Very OT, PBS - frontline: medicating kids: the Ritalin explosion

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> I'm not an expert, but I can speak on some of this from personal
> experience, both of our kids have ADD.
> 
> First of all, child abuse is child abuse. Hitting someone, or locking
> them up for hours, is child abuse. You may argue about the gray areas
> but no amount of justifications work in some cases.
> 
> We, as a nation, is over-medicating our children, and ourselves. May
> be it's pharmaceutical drive to make money, or just an indication that
> our personal health and the health industry are breaking down. When
> 2/3 of Americans are overweight and we are looking for the diet pills,
> the wheels have fallen off the wagons long ago.
> 
> ADD kids, and adult, often are the ones that see outside the box. In
> the earlier times, they are the tricksters, the chao ones. The ones
> that move things out of the doldrums. They are not easy to handle, and
> some of them may need medications to help them along, but they are not
> un-attentive, lazy, disruptive because they want to, etc.
> 
> Ritalin is often the wrong drugs. What some of these kids need the
> most are time for them to mature, and love and understanding to
> support them.


Richard I wish were were a smart with cameras as you sound like you are with
kids!

Mark William Rabiner