Use of Psychotropic Medication for School Children and Impact on Mental Health
Abstract Large numbers of school children nationwide take psychotropic drugs as treatment to manage demands for daily living. Over time and in later life, the psychotropic drug use among school children has a negative impact on quality of life. Prescription conditions for such psychotropic drugs range from general but chronic mal-adaptive behaviors to full blown psychiatric diagnoses. A societal shift from psychiatric to primary care for addressing mental issues in the family, coupled with a profit driven pharmaceutical industry lobby…...
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Assessing and Treating Children with ADHD
Attention-deficit or hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is acknowledged as one of the neurobehavioral sicknesses in children (Brown, Samuel, & Patel, 2018). It manifests early in life with signs of distraction, and hyperactivity-impulsivity components (Arcangelo, Peterson, Wilbur, & Reinhold, 2017; Sulkes, 2017). CDC reports that about 11% of the kids in the United States aged 2-17 years about 6.4 million are diagnosed with ADHD. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2018). There are three kinds of ADHD reported by Diagnostic and…...
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Biological Treatments for Antipsychotic Medications
Antipsychotics are a class of drugs used primarily in the management of psychosis (including delusions, hallucinations, paranoia or disordered thinking), mainly in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. However, they are being used increasingly to treat non-psychotic disorders. Antipsychotics are typically classified as typical or atypical antipsychotics. Generally speaking, antipsychotic medications work by blocking a specific subtype of the dopamine receptor called the D2 receptor in the dopaminergic pathways, specifically the mesolimbic pathway. This means that dopamine released in these pathways has…...
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Adderall Abuse Among College Students
Chronic use of Adderall significantly contributed to the death of Joseph Tanner Wray, a 20-year-old University of Tennessee Student. Taking Adderall in combination with caffeine caused Joseph to go into cardiac arrest. According to an article by Stephanie Desmon-Jhu, there are students taking Adderall for non-prescription purposes. Students are feeling increased pressures from the demands of college coursework. New Federal statistics from CCHR International show that the use of this drug has sky-rocketed during the past two decades. A study…...
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Adhd as a Social Construct
This research paper will discuss what ADHD is and why it is that there are those who think it was invented instead of discovered. It will also investigate the reasons why social construct theorists believe that the diagnosis of ADHD does more harm than good and actually diverts from the real issues that children face in their development in this day and age. Also explored will be the case against the social construct theory and why some who argue that…...
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