Is Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Treatment Using Psychotropic Drugs Harmful?
Despite the efficacy of attention deficit hyperactive disorder treatment using medications, notably using stimulant drugs, there are still many non-believers out there. This group of people strongly believes that psychotropic drugs are ineffective and dangerous for the treatment of ADHD. Claiming that drugs had been overused, they advocate using behavioral therapy instead because ADHD deals with human behaviour. They lambasted the pharmaceutical industry for immorally capitalizing on many people’s faith in pharmacotherapy to treat this disorder. It has been reported by many journals and research papers that expenditure on psychotropic drugs to treat a gamut of disabilities run into billions of dollars annually. By logic, one would think that if the demand for these drugs is so high, it must be because they have been beneficial to the users. But the anti-pharmacology intervention crusaders believe that this group of people had basically been brainwashed and had never given behavioral th