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There are real people who have real medical issues who are helped by drugs like #Welbutrin and #Adderall. There are also people who have a completely normal problem with sitting in a classroom for 6 hours that is not a medical problem. Our issue is that our society dose a piss poor job distinguishing the two.
There is a similar issue with track classes (placing students in learning setting with those of similar skill levels). When done with care and equity it helps both high and low achieving students learn and stay engaged, but in practice it is never done right.
Engaged parents push their children into advanced classes they are not actually suited for, while otherwise gifted students are held back not because they lack skill or learning, but because they lacked opportunity or were actively discriminated against.
In actual practice, tracking does more harm than good, and I can see an argument that using medication to try to solve behavioral issues that have their roots in social and cultural factors can be just as harmful.