How Medication Affects Students with Disabilities

More than 17 million children around the world are on prescription drugs today (Lombardi, 2006)

So what

Parents should be more cautious about putting their children on medication, BECAUSE...

It has negative health effects

• Medication adherence- 1 or more medications, on certain disabilities (Hilt, 2014; Van de Ven, 2013)
• Negative side effects (Handen and Gilchrist, 2006; Shneider, 2014)
• Domino Effect on future generations (Baker, 2013)

Counterclaims

• Not every medication works for everybody
• The positive effects outweigh the negative ones

It causes setbacks in education

• Health (physical and mental) affects learning (Handen and Gilchrist, 2006; Schneider, 2014)
• Behavior can become a (worse) problem-especially with ADHD cases (Berl, 2013)

Counterclaims

• You just have to know the right dosage to use on each child

It can lead to Drug Addiction

• Stimulants are easy to misuse (Kaminer, 2013; Drug facts, 2015)
• The longer one is on medication, the more dependent they become and the harder it is to stop using them (Baker, 2013; K
• "Prescription drugs, after alcohol and marijuana, are the most abused drugs" (DrugFacts.com)

Counterclaims

• Anything can become an addiction, it depends on the person

Conclusion

• We need to be more careful about when we put children on medication
• We need to make sure we explore all other options before medication

My Process

• Was easy to find sources (all but website from Cook Library)
• Once I had sources organized, paper came easily
• The presentation was not difficult except I didn't like thi site that much