Abstract: Research was conducted on the misdiagnosis and overmedication of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children. The research included finding the effects of medications and the detrimental behaviors those medications can cause on a child. Children are also losing their level of focus due to changes in culture and their daily lives. Parents, teachers, and administrators of these children are forcing them to become medicated. Research found that children should be trying to use behavior management therapy instead of only using drugs.
Thesis: Children that are categorized as attention deficit are being wrongly diagnosed and overmedicated, which is making them more likely to have detrimental behaviors in the future; unfortunately, these children are direct results of cultural changes and are forced to take medication by teachers and parents instead of trying therapy to correct their behavioral issues.
- Diagnosis
- Incorrectly diagnosed
- Disruptive behavior
- Deadly effects
- Correctly diagnosed (Counter)
- Incorrectly diagnosed
- Medications
- Severely overmedicated
- Percent diagnosed
- Serious behaviors
- Deaths occurred
- Correctly medicated (Counter)
- Severely overmedicated
- Effects
- Mostly negative
- Drug abuse
- Antipsychotic use
- Mostly positive (Counter)
- Mostly negative
- Culture
- Changes
- Genetics (counter)
- Control
- Parent action
- Teacher action
- Best option(Counter)
- Therapies
- Behavior Therapy
- Drug Therapy (Counter)