More Kids Being Prescribed Pills

The rate at which society twitches to medicate young people for behavior exhibiting defiance, resistance, resilience, impulsiveness, or other wise “unfit” for status quo standards, sickens the heart. Public institutions, psychiatrists, social behaviorists, pharmacy companies, and others quick to turn a profit from pushing psychotropic medication, have found millions of non-complacent kids to treat in schools across the states. Early in the conception of this blog I wrote about how misdiagnosing of young people within schools with various mental illnesses is now as common as administering academic tests.

Educators and administrative personal active in kids lives in conventional (state) schools who have a low tolerance for rule breakers and daydreamers, have a nervous habit of Doping Up Youth Who Won’t Sit Still. The drugging of youth is at a unprecedented high. Fortunately the problem is getting some attention in the media thanks to Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D, but as alarming as this drug induced crisis is - we need to do much more than simply prescribe dope.