{"id":2664,"date":"2008-11-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/dose-up-the-children.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:28:01","slug":"dose-up-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2664","title":{"rendered":"Dose-up the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Our culture of health seems to adopt a “give pills first, ask questions later” mentality.<\/p>\n

In other words, treat with a product (drugs), rather than with a process (behavioral therapy).<\/p>\n

I know, I know, this is not universally true. However, it is alarmingly common.<\/p>\n

For example, this article reports on data <\/a>from the November issue Journal Pediatrics, showing that medication use among children across the United States is dramatically increasing.<\/p>\n

Increased prescribing may be due in large part to increasing obesity among children and the health consequences of that trend, researchers say.<\/p>\n

“Across all the medication classes we looked at, the rates of use increased — sometimes dramatically,”<\/em> said study co-author Dr. Donna Halloran, an assistant professor of pediatrics at St. Louis University. “This is particularly concerning, given that several of these diagnoses have been linked to obesity — diabetes, hypertension, depression, asthma.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Medication is important, obviously, but perhaps as a last resort, not a one-size-fits-all first pass. Handing out Ritalin, or anti-depressants that can produce suicidal tendencies, or any other pharmaceutical — particularly to our children — seems risky and invasive.<\/p>\n

The onus, unfortunately, is on us. We have to be the ones to firmly request alternatives … non-invasive procedures for ourselves and our children because, as you can see by these numbers, pills are being thrown at our kids at an alarmingly increased rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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