Abusing Pills ?

"Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to help in School," written by Alan Schwarz talks about kids who may be abusing the substance and who really use the pills to help them. Some kids use the pills to pay better attention in school, or to listen better to instructions, but some use them to raise already good grades.

The article has quotes by doctors, and parents with kids who use pills for A.D.H.D. The fact that some kids are only using pills to raise already good grades irritates me. It’s irritating because they are already doing well, so the pills should just be for the kids who really need them.

I think this topic shows how doctors handle kids in situations like these; they give them pills. They see them not really doing well in a big classroom and give them the label A.D.H.D. A solution to this problem would be to actually do test on the child to see if he/she truly has A.D.H.D. 

 This topic reminds me of my cousin who is diagnosed with A.D.H.D. She has a hard time listening and paying attention. She is also hyperactive in class. Her teachers have a hard time teaching her unless she takes her medicine in the morning. 

This helped me realize parents will do anything to see their children do better in school, even if the side effects mean hearing and seeing people who are not there, and being suicidal. Parents who are okay with this is crazy, one day they kids could be hearing stuff and just kill their self. Their parents would be sad because they put their kids on the pills that made them suicidal. 

My questions about this article would be did any kids kill their self because of the pills? Or did any parents see the side effects and stop giving their child the pills? I could answer the questions by asking the parents.