Parents Pushing For Stimulants To Help With Grades?
I’ve written before on how non-ADHD students are abusing Adderall or faking ADHD. Now parents are pushing Doctors to prescribe stimulants to their non-ADHD children purely because the child’s grades are slipping.
A 15-year-old girl and her parents recently came in for a chat with Dr. James Perrin, a Boston pediatrician, because they were concerned about the girl’s grades. Previously an A student, she was slipping to B’s, and the family was convinced attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was at fault — and that a prescription for Ritalin would boost her brainpower.
Seeking straight A’s, parents push for pills
Find Out More:
Books:
- Talking Back to Ritalin: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You About Stimulants and ADHD
- Making the System Work for Your Child with ADHD (Making the System Work for Your Child)
- Teenagers With ADD: A Parents’ Guide (The Special-Needs Collection)
- Teenagers With ADD: A Parents’ Guide (The Special-Needs Collection)
- Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents (Revised Edition)
September 8th, 2006
ADD / ADHD Medication, ADD / ADHD
Comments on: Parents Pushing For Stimulants To Help With Grades?
I had a 15 year son, he took Aderall since he was in 3rd. grade know he is in 9th grade he dont want his medication any more, hi’s not doing good at schhol, his dad is Bipolar and I know he is to, how can I know what is the correct medication for him before they kick him out from 9th grade.
Please help
Sylvia
Posted by: Sylvia Agosto March 17th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
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