Adderall Argumentative Essay

“Just take this to the drug store, and you can get his prescription filled.” The pediatrician tears off the paper and hands it to the boy’s mother. “How many medications does Tyler need to be on? He’s already taking Adderall for his hyperactivity, and he has a prescription for his anxiety, which I never noticed before the Adderall anyway. How necessary are these really?” Her eyes shoot the doctor the same look a deer gives a wolf in it’s last breath. A look of complete desperation. “Which one of us is the doctor here? Seriously, he’s fine. Tyler needs this medication. If you really don’t believe me then go get a second opinion from somewhere else. But I’m one hundred percent confident in my diagnosis and any other professional would back me in that.” The sad part is just how right that
diagnoses, and in turn an unprecedented increase in Adderall prescriptions followed. In the past decade, the number e .H.D. diagnoses (Pierson 1). This has led to an increase in the supply of Adderall sold to those without a prescription (Pierson 1). If there weren’t as many prescriptions, the number of people using Adderall dangerously would decrease greatly. The worst part is how the doctors prescribe these people, especially children, with such a dangerous drug. In the documentary The Medicated Child, Dr. Patrick Bacon, a psychiatrist in Denver, Colorado with a degree from The University of Michigan, says he thinks of these prescriptions as “experiments”, due to the inexact nature of prescribing the right amount of Adderall to each person (The Medicated Child). This presents another problem entirely, due to the danger of taking too much of a drug at one time. This isn’t an easily fixable problem either, because there is no way to tell how what dosage a person should receive other than trial and error, and this trial and error of a “non-addictive drug” can lead to huge amounts of addiction and substance