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Stepford Students
Whether this will be a trend is not yet known, but the fact that some parents are giving their non-ADHD children ADHD drugs to control their behavior is ... what's the right word here? "distressing"? "frightening"? "alarming"? No? Too judgmental? Either way, unfortunately, it's not too surprising. As one pediatrician put it, "We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid": http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/health/attention-disorder-or-not-children-prescribed-pills-to-help-in-school.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&hpw
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