Who has final say on ADHD drug treatment — school officials or parents?

If you’re the parent or caregiver for a child attending school and are told they need to be on an ADHD drug, what can you do?

You don’t have to do a thing.

In 2004 a federal law was passed that prohibits schools from requiring — or even recommending — that your child take a “controlled substance” in order to attend school. And that’s what these ADHD drugs are, controlled substances!

This means you do NOT have to go along with a teacher, principal or even a doctor’s “diagnosis” that your child has ADHD, OCD, anxiety disorder or any other type of psychiatric ailment.

And your child does NOT have to take any kind of drug to treat this imagined illness in order to stay in school.

That’s the law.

And if you are pressured to give in and put your child on any of these meds, that’s a violation of the law.

Schools also cannot charge parents or caregivers with being negligent for refusing to put their children on these drugs.

Here’s another very important piece of information. There are no medical tests that can prove a child needs to be on any of these medications. Not one.

And there never has been.

Saying a child needs a drug for any kind of mental condition is based 100 percent on someone’s opinion, using what they call a “checklist of behaviors.”

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights web site contains information about these drugs, statements from doctors about what a “diagnosis” means and forms you can use to decline any mental health screenings and “counseling” for your child.

Click here to learn more from that group about how to keep your kids and grandkids off these dangerous controlled substances.

Sources:

“Parents: Get the facts — know your rights” CCHR International, cchrint.org