A lot of great points and I agree with them all, and would like to add my 2 cents worth in. This issue really gets me going.

I honestly think that there are a lot of people out there who have kids and do not realize that in doing so you are taking on what a amounts to another full time career... Parent.

I think too many parents out there are under a lot of duress and are looking for the "quick fix" more and more. Our society as a whole seeks "feel good" short term solutions for its symptoms and simply throwing money at an issue rather than applying real thought and effort and actually solving the problem.

Unfortunately doctors and child therapists are reduced to telling parents that their child can be fixed with a pill simply because the parent is going to shop docs until they find one that will perscribe one. I think in their hearts they know the real answers are much more complex and difficult. Few parents though want to take the time to listen and apply them, sad, but true.

Look pumping brain chemestry altering drugs that are as powerful as heroin and PCP cannot possibly be good for these kids. I can smell the lawsuits 10 years from now against docs and big pharma.

I would issue the following challange to the so called advocates of doping up our kids to get them to behave.
Let me take two hundred of them from anywhere in the US Canada, or the UK, take them off the drugs and put them on a 30 minute Tai Chi regimon every morning. I guarantee that 195 of them after 2 weeks will stay disciplined and focused without ever ingesting another single miligram of those drugs ever again.