Recently, I had to take a ten year old nephew to doctor for his regular medical checkup with his pediatrician. The doctor asked us for symptoms of ADHD in the kid and somehow the doctor suggested that we could send the kid to a neuro-doctor (neurologist?) for further evaluation. When I asked the doctor as to what the future course of evaluation would be, he said that we may medicate with appropriate psychotropic drug depending on the evaluation. I found this very weird as the kid is quite normal for his age. And I have seen kids of his age meditate and this kid is favorably inclined to yoga and mantra meditation. Why would the doctor not want to try alternative therapies prior to medicating? It is sickening that doctors are obsessed with over-medicating. I came across this article in NY Times where even an expert on ADHD is appalled.
“The numbers make it look like an epidemic. Well, it’s not. It’s preposterous,” Dr. Conners, a psychologist and professor emeritus at Duke University, said in a subsequent interview. “This is a concoction to justify the giving out of medication at unprecedented and unjustifiable levels.”
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