Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) By Nicholas Pappas English 101 Professor Nicholas Pappas April 29, 2004 Pappas 2 Abstract Parents throughout the country are being pressured and compelled by schools to give psychiatric drugs to their children. Teachers, school psychologists, and administrators commonly make dire threats about their inability to teach children without medicating them. They sometimes suggest that only medication can stave off a bleak future of delinquency and occupational failure. They even call child protective services to …showed first 75 words of 2729 total…

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