Are We Over-Drugging Our Kids?

Are We Over-Drugging Our Kids? - The Tom Hitchens Community:

The band-aide approach to making kids seen but not heard, right?

 BY JULIE FIDLER (naturalsociety.com) – A new report by the Centers for Disease Control explains, at least partly, why the numbers of children being diagnosed with ADHD have skyrocketed in recent years: many of these youngsters (1 in 5, actually) have been improperly diagnosed.

The number of children diagnosed with ADHD jumped 42% from 2004 to 2011. As of 2011, an astonishing 6.4 million tykes were diagnosed with the disorder and placed in therapy, fed powerful mind-altering drugs, or both.