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Do you feel doctors prescribe medications too fast?
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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 188112" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>I am as much concerned about the pathologicalization -- the trend to make every behavior some sort of disorder --of behavior as I am about the quickness of doctors to prescribe medication. </p><p></p><p>They do go hand-in-hand. Every behavior is a disorder and there's a drug to treat every one of them. Oh, it doesn't matter that the disorders aren't defined by anything more than a collection of behaviors. It doesn't matter that the cause of these behaviors is never identified. It doesn't matter that the drugs haven't been tested on children or the "disorder". The doctors reach for the prescription pad, sometimes -- we've seen -- within fifteen minutes of meeting the child. </p><p></p><p>And I hate that so many doctors still seem to be unwilling or incapable of identifying adverse reactions -- particularly psychiatric adverse reactions -- to the drugs they prescribe. And because they refuse or fail to identify adverse reactions, what do they do? Why, write a prescription for another drug, what else?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 188112, member: 1498"] I am as much concerned about the pathologicalization -- the trend to make every behavior some sort of disorder --of behavior as I am about the quickness of doctors to prescribe medication. They do go hand-in-hand. Every behavior is a disorder and there's a drug to treat every one of them. Oh, it doesn't matter that the disorders aren't defined by anything more than a collection of behaviors. It doesn't matter that the cause of these behaviors is never identified. It doesn't matter that the drugs haven't been tested on children or the "disorder". The doctors reach for the prescription pad, sometimes -- we've seen -- within fifteen minutes of meeting the child. And I hate that so many doctors still seem to be unwilling or incapable of identifying adverse reactions -- particularly psychiatric adverse reactions -- to the drugs they prescribe. And because they refuse or fail to identify adverse reactions, what do they do? Why, write a prescription for another drug, what else? [/QUOTE]
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