Based on my own experience and dozens of interviews, I can confidently attest that the drugs are anything but a quick fix for the young people who take them. Rather, they are complicated and imperfect remedies that raise perhaps as many issues as they resolve.
The young adults I have interviewed -- even those whose parents or doctors pushed treatment on them as young children -- have presented more varied and more subtle accounts of their experiences than you might assume, given the tenor of the current debate.
That is, they weren't just passive receptacles for psychopharmaceuticals. Nor were they "drugged" into some never-ending state of unthinking acceptance or comfortable numbness.
Ten or fifteen or twenty years into their relationship with medication, they have had plenty of time to consider the drugs' potential impacts on their day-to-day lives and long-term development.
Labels: medications, adult_ADHD
Posted By: Aspen/CRC
