Friday, October 26, 2012

     In Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to help in school by Alan Schwarz he brings to light that there are physicians providing stimulants to struggling students, but not for A.D.H.D. He's actually trying to boost their academic performance. Which is something that may be very dangerous or very helpful they do not know as of now.

     This article mostly provides quotes from doctors and physicians. It also provides quotes from a superintendent of a school. Something that stood out to me is that doctors even consider anything like this. This is shocking and surprising in my eyes, it shows that trusting people is getting harder and harder these days.

      I think that this shouldn't be allowed because it's giving them something that's not for them and could eventually hurt them. Before I read this article I thought that all doctors were helpful but in a safe and sure way. This is not a sure way to help people, the takers of this pill could actually have side-effects and things could start going south for them. I think this is very important because it is a serious topic that could affect our future.

     This article made me wonder about a lot of things. One thing is if a doctor has ever given me something that I don't need to improve my performance in anything, such as steroids for sports. I could find this out by looking at my medical records and looking up the medicines and their primary uses.

1 comment:

  1. Great post Tavonne. This article does raise a lot of troubling questions. 100

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