American kids are the most medicated in the world. The increase in use of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs has been nothing short of staggering in its implications. Every year more than 200 million prescriptions are written for children and teenagers in the United States. One in four insured children and nearly 30% of adolescents took at least one prescription medication for a chronic illness in 2009. Pediatricians are actively doping children with prescription pharmaceuticals that are potentially devastating.
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