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<blockquote data-quote="mawmastewart" data-source="post: 78390" data-attributes="member: 1371"><p>One of the reasons there is little/no research for kids and medications is because children are protected from dangerous research by ethics laws. This doesn't help those of us who are between a rock and hard place trying to do the best for our difficult child without really being able to KNOW that we are doing the right thing. I guess the only thing we can focus on is that our pioneering in this area will make the path for some behind us a little easier. And remember, this stuff is genetic so it may be our grandkids lives that we will affect positively. </p><p></p><p>I hate medications. I just posted on this very feeling on the general board because I am considering an antipsychotic in addition to the ADHD stims we are using for my son. HATE medications. Want to run away to the woods and eat vegetables, want God to HEAL him completely without medicine, want a miracle... But in the face of what we face everyday...what choices do we really have? I think a lot of medications could be avoided by a societal shift in health thinking.. but really? Is McDonalds going to go out of business? Are we going to stop eating sugar? This author really did make the parents out to be some kind of sadistic criminals.. or blind sheep following evil medical sheppards who really sound like mad scientists experimenting on our kids. It DOESN't help those of us who are struggling with the medication issue.. at all. in my humble opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mawmastewart, post: 78390, member: 1371"] One of the reasons there is little/no research for kids and medications is because children are protected from dangerous research by ethics laws. This doesn't help those of us who are between a rock and hard place trying to do the best for our difficult child without really being able to KNOW that we are doing the right thing. I guess the only thing we can focus on is that our pioneering in this area will make the path for some behind us a little easier. And remember, this stuff is genetic so it may be our grandkids lives that we will affect positively. I hate medications. I just posted on this very feeling on the general board because I am considering an antipsychotic in addition to the ADHD stims we are using for my son. HATE medications. Want to run away to the woods and eat vegetables, want God to HEAL him completely without medicine, want a miracle... But in the face of what we face everyday...what choices do we really have? I think a lot of medications could be avoided by a societal shift in health thinking.. but really? Is McDonalds going to go out of business? Are we going to stop eating sugar? This author really did make the parents out to be some kind of sadistic criminals.. or blind sheep following evil medical sheppards who really sound like mad scientists experimenting on our kids. It DOESN't help those of us who are struggling with the medication issue.. at all. in my humble opinion. [/QUOTE]
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