I saw a friend of mine's bottle of adderall which is for her kid who has ADHD, but the bottle was labeled "keep out of reach of children"...

Now I cant help picture her danging an adderall pill just out of reach of her ritalin addicted child saying "Sorry you have to jump for it, I have to keep it out of your reach, bottle says so", and then pulling it back like a cat going after a toy every time the child desperately reaches for the adderall.

There is a reason I am not a father :)

@🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 that is the simple approach. Some medication might only show side affects years after someone used it. Not totally related but there was a show about kids that have a growing problem. Not that they did not but they where about to grow to much. They gave them medication where one pill (used once a day) has the average of 7 anti conception pills, that also is equal to 1 morning after pill.

They did solve the problem but years later it was found that these woman have problems getting pregnant. Some 500 in the Netherlands.
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@hanswolters yes, its obviously important to weight the benefits and risk..

If your child is struggling to reach their full potential then a drug , assuming it is significantly helpful in improving that potential, is worth a greater risk than if the drug has less important positive effects (I'm not sure height is all that important a goal personally, within reason)...

But yea if a kid is given adderall and there is a 5% improvement in their performance you might deem the risk not worth it.. if there is a 300% improvement perhaps it is.

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