The Pros And Cons Of ADHD Medication

Over the course of time from 2001 to 2011 the amount of people diagnosed with ADHD rose 24% (“Neurologists”). With the certain rise in people being diagnosed, the number of bottles of the medication being sold has shot up tremendously, but is that a good or bad thing? Granted medication for ADHD does help with focusing in school or sports, there are some effects that can be life threatening. Many Hospitals and labs have been researching about ADHD medication, in particular the Boston Children’s Hospital has found that the drug that is said to be designed to help children and adults with the ADHD diagnosis has not informed people that they have little to no understanding of what the drug can really do to you. Medical scientist have found that 2/3s of the 6.4 million americans diagnosed with ADHD may just be taking experimental life-threatening drugs (O’Meara). Sadly, with the drug being harmful to people, doctors have been commonly diagnosing people with the disorder. The most common people diagnosed with ADHD are white high school boys from high income families, those making more than 70000 dollars a year. Even though white boys take up most of the people being diagnosed, the amount of different raced kids being diagnosed has risen significantly from about about a 1.7% to a 4.11% increase from blacks and hispanics …show more content…
Children's brains are not yet fully developed and dont have the ability to handle the drugs the way people with fully developed brains can, which can lead to the negative effects on them mentally and physically. The main problem is, with ADHD children's brains take even longer to develop than someone with a normal healthy brain, and shown in research people with ADHD have the ability to grow out of the disorder by the time they ar 21-24. The question we have to ask ourselves is, is it really worth giving them pain for the time there on the medicine and possibly for the rest of their