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(9,131 posts)BainsBane, I'm not ignorant. I'd never 'condemn' all 'neuro' Rx's.
One of my dearest buddies is a teaching physician with an interest in the topic. My own observations of how the perfectly normal kids of family members and acquaintances were routinely 'placed on' various Rxs from ages 8-10 and stayed on the Rxs fairly continuously til age 15-16.
Millions of bright 'overly energetic' boys strained the patience of teachers whose classroom sizes had increased. It became advantageous to schools and stressed out working parents to sedate millions of 'attention deficit disorder' kids. The schools had stopped offering supervised active 'recess' play periods as we enjoyed when I was growing up. In elementary school we had 2 half hour periods a day. Later in middle school and high school there was a whole hour for gym (phys ed) or sports.
Anyhow, out of the 1980s-1990s generation, a great percentage of children had been taking serious prescription drugs. Incidentally, this taught them 'better living through popping pills'.
Also, adults and children are *usually* prescribed psychoactive drugs by family practitioners who aren't trained in psychology. There is seldom any supervising psychiatrist, seldom any psychological therapy as an adjunct because many, even MOST health insurance plans exclude coverage for 'nervous or mental conditions'. Or high deductibles place psychological counseling out of reach.
You and I aren't as far apart as seemed, I think.