The Psychiatric Drugs Connection

Drugs and medication surrounding ADHD is well written about and there are many people who are for these drugs and a lot who are against.  Ritalin is probably the most common drug which is given to children with ADHD but it has been said in recent years that this drug has been given out to many children who don’t actually need it, many children across the nation have been labelled with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and been given drugs to calm them down, but there is a fine line between needing the drug and not needing the drug. 

Giving drugs to children is not ideal and if given to a child from an early age can have side effects as adults.  The younger in which a child takes a drug the more likely that they are to continue use of this drug into adulthood.  There are side effects to taking any drugs with chemicals in them, the most common effect is putting the child into a zombie like state, although the child is then calm and not running around it is not good for the child to be in a dysfunctional state.  The drugs can also cause nausea. 

There is an alternative way in which theses children can be treated for ADHD and this is through therapy and child psychiatrists link findings which have been discovered by various doctors, therapists and hospitals in the past, if the child has had bad or unpleasant experiences with a doctor in the past then it is a psychiatrists job to weed out the problems and try to resolve them by listening to the child and understanding.  Child psychiatrists deal with children in a unique way in order to relate to each of the child’s problems without upsetting the child.

With psychiatric treatment and talking the problem through the child is much more likely to thrive in to adulthood, if too stronger drugs are given to a child by a doctor this can have terrible side effects and they don’t have to take a big dose of the drug in order that this happens, the child can go into a zombie like state on only 5mg of Ritalin, if this is the wrong drug for the child. 

It is always best to treat any child with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder through natural ways if possible, this is why many people who have children with ADHD are using psychiatric drugs and treatments instead of the traditional medicine which is prescribed by doctors.