Essay On Prescription Drugs

In recent decades, many psychiatric professionals have prescribed drugs for children as they deemed necessary. However, these drugs have produced negative results. Although doctors have been recommending prescription drugs to kids for a long time, statistical research has suggested that it is now time to end this practice.

One issue that has come to light with giving prescription drugs to children is the fact that the overwhelming majority of them were never even intended for children in the first place, due to their ages. In the article, the author, Maureen Salaman Gordon, a former president of the National Hemophilia Foundation, presented very alarming statistics that reveal some eighty percent of these medication were authorized only for adults. The manufacturers of these medications also agree that they should not be recommended for kids. Unwisely, far too many kids are still prescribed these drugs.

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One such unfortunate side effect that manifests in these kids is aggression. The children caught in the grip of these ill-advised medications have been shown to display violent behavior to themselves and other. Unfortunately, some of them have been driven commit suicide. It has been documented that child suspects in prominent school shootings and massacres, such as the case of Columbine High School in Colorado, were takers of these drugs as well. Children can also become gravely ill and lose control of their faculties as a result. One doctor who specializes in food allergies notes statistics proving that many children on antibiotics will end up with asthma, and half of child patients under the age of four will have epileptic seizures. Some develop deficiencies with their hearing, while others have their growth stunted or even heart attacks. Another somber statistic reveals a spike of one hundred sixty