is important to note that the path of psychoactive drugs was initiated by Bradley in 1937 to observe the effectiveness of the "Dextroamphetamine" in the correction of symptoms of hyperactivity and inattention. Since then drug alternatives arise against the international control and banning amphetamines of stimulants made from coca.
Among them are the "methylphenidate-nidato" as the drug of choice for the improvement of symptoms. There is talk of an improvement in attention and hyperactivity in two of every three children treated.
But as the effectiveness fades once the drug is depleted in the body, "it is necessary to continue treatment for several years" and "interruption of the drug leads to a surprising relapse one or two days "(addition ???). Also Is to expect some degree of anorexia, weight loss and insomnia, and the child may show pallor and abundant dark circles. "
All these effects "secondary" are accepted by most authors. If we not only risk short-and long-term medication and believe that with it we are attacking the visible part of the "iceberg", before beginning the perilous path of drugs "Psychostimulants" in children should remember the words of Dr. Lourie Shulamit when he says: "There are many reasons why a person-one-child can not concentrate. It takes little effort to discover before prescribing a drug. "
However there is a widespread misuse of the diagnosis of inattention and / or hyperkinesis with the corresponding provision of medication, even going so far, by some professionals, to indicate its use "as a preventive measure," by if the child comes to become distracted ...".
In 1975, the authors Peter Schrag and Diane Divoky in his book "The myth of the hyperactive child" made a warning advising that "is creating a generation to distrust their own needs, so that consider to be a disease in which the points deviate from the increasingly narrow standards of the approved standards and to trust in state institutions and technology to define and shape health. "
So the decade of 1990 saw an alarming increase in the number of children being diagnosed and medicated with stimulants and antidepressants.
look at how we present the international population:
In France, it was determined that the number of children who entered the school and was already taking psychotropic drugs reached 60%.
In Germany, from 1995 to 1999, the number of pills prescribed methylphenidate showed an increase of 400%.
in the United States in the twelve months preceding June 2001, 20.6 million prescriptions prescribed.
Now, as the course the disease? We are told that these children since they are observed little worried ... but not all become restless and shifting in ADHD, and there are those 'Have ADD', ie without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and then there are restless and shifting ... Point.
So what is the parameter of "activity" to designate a child hyperactive? If the school is normally demand hypoactivity, all activity will be considered hyperactive.
Telematics, with the change that has been introduced in the modes of representation of time and space would not be proposing a different kind of care different?.
Children and adolescents today, they do not get 'Pay attention', do not be suffering too much and not for lack (of unidirectionality of care)?
Address, is concentrating? Who or what? "In itself, the object of knowledge or the teacher?
today probably requires a decentering of attention to different types of stimuli simultaneously, in a way not care.
dominant medical power has the tendency to develop indicators as medical conditions of concern. On the contrary we must be read as warning signs that children are the first to issue and must be decoded as questions.
insist, what are the parameters to measure the "activity and from there consider the" hyper "and" hiccups "activity?. A child may be anxious for many reasons and most of the time, anxiety or hyperactivity of a child may be showing: an intelligence alert, active, questioning and lack of response to it in the family and / or school; or an indirect call for attention in relation to different kinds of psychological problems or psycho, which should be listened to carefully.
If one does not have a more complete assessment of what the whole situation may have led a child to have an attention deficit disorder, symptomatic treatment can be done and not going to tackle the causes the problem.
regard to drug treatment is considered by analysis of the behaviors that we can understand and guide the behavior, under certain contextual conditions are considered as excessive or deficit.
is easier to propose a medication to make a series of changes in the family or the environment or the relationship with the child, even by the low tolerance of the institutions with troubled kids .. . the idea is you have to do something the doctor does not bother the kid in school.
Source:
"El Niño engaged"
Authors:
Bournissen, Delia Paulina
Dominguez, Sonia
Dozo, Amelia
Nucci, Susana
CORDOBA, August 23, 2004
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