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After watching “The Medicated Child” I felt dumbfounded and confused on how any of this drug abuse is possible. I noticed the word “nutrients” wasn’t used at all through out the program. In my experience, when I go to the doctor, they ask me what my diet is and what hobbies I enjoy. In the movie, I never heard the doctor’s ask what the diet was of the kids or what activities they took part of. I find this peculiar.

After class I went ahead and looked up some articles on this topic. The most interesting article I found is here at http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/23/kids.overmedicated/index.html

In this article CNN goes into detail regarding the life of Gavin Gorski and debate weather its right or wrong to medicate kids. Gavin Gorski suffers from many learning disabilities and impulses he can’t control. His father goes ahead to say, “We couldn’t exist without him being medicated.”

Later in the article, one of the doctors says, “Pharmaceuticals should be the last resort after therapies and behavioral interventions.” I couldn’t agree with this more. As a child growing up my mother always thought I depressed because I would like to take naps after school. I was constantly taking different tests and asked to take different mood changing medications. After saying no for most of my life I decided to try Adderol and see how my life was affected. I started taking Adderol every day and I received the best grades in a semester I ever got. I was happy about the grades but felt like a total zombie with no emotions. for that reason I stopped taking the pills and never took another one again. It really made me feel like a different person.