It is like any other medical intervention - there are risks. It is a matter of determining what the risks are of either medicating or not medicating and whether there are other options. But if you have a stressed lifestyle due to other kids and finances and are at the point where you are scared you will be fired because you have to go to the school so often and the doctor offers you a pill with the comment that lots of kids thank their parents for medicating them then ... We have the system we have and most people don't have an opt-out button they just do the best they can with what they have.

Last edited by puffin; 10/01/13 01:35 PM.