Reply #3: anyone taking any psychoactive drugs needs to be monitored [View All]

[havocmom]

While the right chemical additives can be very helpful, the wrong ones can be deadly. Monitoring and informing family memebers of warning signs would certainly help in getting meds changed quickly if they are not correct for the individual. The fact that there is no data regarding youths and these meds make it all the more risky.

And we need to change the cultural idea that everyone should act just like everyone else, or be medicated into that state. Seems like anyone covered by an insurance policy gets meds whether they are really needed or not. Anyone not covered but really needs meds can go live in a cardboard box.

While I feel for the woman who lost her daughter, someone who graduated
from Stanford University is not a kid. Using that to advocate caution in RX for children confuses the arguements for more information on effects on kids.