AMERICAN CHILDREN ARE OVERMEDICATED
This is absolute truth that children in the United States are exposed to more medication today than ever before. The numbers of children on these medications are becoming astronomical that we are facing one of the greatest man-made challenges of a life time. Prescribing medication to kids without taking into consideration all the precaution is common in our communities. It is outrageous to think that every problem we notice in children can be solved only be medications. It is sad that this notion had also been implanted in the mind of kids around this nation. Parents are too hasty to give pills to children when they notice a behavior dysfunction in their children without researching other alternative means of dealing with these issues. It is disgusting and inhumane that some group of parent have resorted to the ideal that it is ok to give pills to theirs kids in order to have an easier day. It is unfortunate we are not fully aware of the consequence of these medications on the growth and development of our children over the long term. The fact is that any medication given to children can have several side effects: coma, seizures, weight gain, stunted growth, brain development delay, increased heart rate and eventually leads to death.
Another major difficult with the frightening number of children being overmedicated is associated with the American Society itself. The pharmaceutical industry had for years exert influence and still employing deceptive tactics to sell drugs without fully understanding the effects on children in the long term. The large and robust deceptive marketing and advertisements of theses medication by drug companies entice doctors and parents to believe that the “quick fix” to some of these behavioral problems is the solution. The drug companies for years had been purposefully targeted the off-label, untested, and inappropriate indications in kids to reap epic proceeds. Drugs companies have more unregulated freedom than any part of the world to market their product where it does not belong. Their success is measured in investors return than the welfare's of the patients. Without missing words, several kids had been injured, negatively impacted or killed because of overmedication by these doctors and deliberate promotion of these drugs by the companies.
It’s been proved that medications aren’t the end-all solution, especially when it comes to our kids. There are alternative approaches too treating signs of behavioral dysfunctions in children. Parents can adopt significant choice that will alter the child’s behavior in the short term and over the long haul. The first thing parent must realize is that behavioral inadequacies in children are amenable to change without requiring foreign substance into the body. Before various medications are administer for various behavioral disturbances in children, intensive family and individual therapy should be fully exalted. Family therapy can be useful to amend the way family members’ converse, to create a more healthful home environment for a disturbed child. A shared fallacy about family therapy is that family therapists put a lot of blame as regards their kids on parents and that family therapy, like other types of "talk" therapies, takes months or even years. This is totally falsehood. Family therapists are not in the business of putting blames on parents, because if that is the norm, most parents wouldn’t bring their kids to therapy. Rather, parents and family therapists work collaboratively should work jointly in finding solution as relates to their kids.
Another alternative way of avoiding overmedications is taking a critical look at what our children are consuming on a daily basis. The issue of proper nutrition and diet for all enhanced behavioral and intellectual issues cannot be discarded. The quality of food we consume has a robust effect on our health and function. It has been confirmed that the well-being of your instinctiveness affects your brain. The benefit of more healthy diet cannot be exaggerated for children, especially during their developmental years. More well-balanced and nutritious diet is necessary to stay healthy for these kids. One of the major and focal culprit’s that can activate developmental complications especially in kids is the ingestion of too many processed foods most definitely and frequently, too much sugar. In this generation of fast food, children are vulnerable to the temptation of eating junk foods not advantageous to the body for adequate growth. In our time were both parents work long hours out of home, the children’s nutritional needs may suffer due to lack of time for parents to pay the desired devotion to what their kids are eating. These days, it is easier for parents to severe their children breakfast with bowl of that concentrated sugar cereal, lunch with pizza and a pack of peanut butter and jelly with sugary snack and taking dinner at the fast food restaurant at the expense of providing healthy juice to drink and diet especially nutritious organic foods, preferably lots of fruits and vegetables.
Without much ado, this is the time to check this unheard pattern of overmedicating kids and all hands must be on deck to prevent and minimize the indiscriminate use of medications for every signs of child behavioral attributes. This is the moment to start educating parents to respect medications and use them solely when necessary. This can only start with parents being worthy role models for their kids by leading and boosting a healthy and more natural lifestyle. Before taking the option for medication for your child, seek a thorough assessment and search other methods to help your child as discussed above. Improving our lifestyle, proper drinking and eating habit and using natural means of prevent behavioral altitudes in young children are much profitable alternatives than recommending the use of medications with potential and adverse side effects in our kids. The pharmaceutical industry and Doctor should be made to account and face prosecution if necessary for some of the effects that are notice in kids which are not pre-mentioned to parents. This will in greater measure stem the indiscriminate prescription of drugs for the sole motive of making money at the expense of human lives. Drugs, if anything, should be seen as a last resort to assist to kids who are suffering from dysfunctional behavioral character, families, communities and environment.
