ADHD pills being used by non ADHD children

     In the article, "Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School", written by Alan Schwarz, he talks about different reasons of why students and people who don’t have ADHD are using attention pills to do better in school, knowing that they don’t need them.
     Dr. Anderson states, "I don’t have a whole lot of choice, we’ve decided as a society that it's too expensive to change the kids environment. So we have to change the kid."
     Reports have been made that doctors, such as Dr. Anderson, is giving children these ADHD pills to improve their grades in school. The pills will not help with ADHD; the students schools do not have a lot of money so they give these students pills to make their grades go up and to advance their progress.
     Students who do have lots of money and good grades are also using these pills. They use the pills to raise their grades even higher. But doctors state that they are using the pills on schools that don’t have money, and the grades of the students are low. Their parents allow the use of the pills, because they want their students to do well.
     Parents families who cannot pay for tutoring or family counseling result in going to use the medication pills. One parent, Jacqueline Williams says that there is no way to thank his for giving her three children the pills. She says that all of her students were having trouble paying attention in their classes and focusing on their work.
     She states, "My kids don’t want to take it, but I told them 'these are your grades when you're taking it, this is when you don't and they understood." Ms. Williams also says that she does not pay for the medication. Her insurance plan, Medicaid pays for just about everything of the medication and doctor costs.
     Many doctors and many people do not believe that the children are being harmed when they take these pills. But there are doctors who say that the children’s health is being put at risk. Side effects of the pill are growth suppression, increased blood pressure rate, and sometimes psychotic episodes.
     With all of these risks, parents should not be giving their children this. The pill will help the kids learning progress. But it will affect their health. No grade is good enough that the child needs to be put in harm’s way just to get it.
     A company like The Drug Enforcement Administration puts these pills in the category as addictive. Meaning that even after the student has got all of the grades needed during their years of child hood, they may still use it. Some doctors say that many still use the pills into their adult years long gone after the ADHD affects are gone.
     These pills will affect the student’s grade and perhaps make their focusing skills go up during their child hood, but a long term use can affect their adult hood badly. Nobody should have to see their child get hooked onto something that they do not need.