To: The United States Senate
Protect Toddlers from ADHD Rx Amphetamines
Protect our nation’s toddlers from being “treated” with amphetamines.
Why is this important?
Please sign this petition to protect toddlers from being diagnosed and prescribed ADHD amphetamines. The FDA has not approved ADHD first-line treatment amphetamines for toddlers less than three years of age. According to a report by the CDC official Susanna N. Visser, at last year’s Georgia Mental Health Forum, more than 10,000 two and three year olds are being prescribed amphetamines for ADHD. Apparently many attending doctors with a moral gauge gasped together in response to the shocking announcement.
Good parents seek out medical advice for crying toddlers. Toddlers should not be chemically punished for their behavior. Toddlers should not be experimented on for being inattentive, impulsive and hyperactive.
Good doctors understand pediatric physiology; immature liver and kidneys impair drug metabolism and excretion. Toddlers are especially vulnerable to adverse drug reactions and adverse drug events. Doctors are not required by the FDA to report adverse drug reactions or adverse drug events.
Please sign this petition to protect our nation’s toddlers from being “treated” with amphetamines. Profiting off the brains of babies must stop. The ADHD amphetamine treatment is so excessively disproportionate for toddlers as to shock the general moral sense. Doctors are not required to tell a patient that a drug is being used off-label. Amphetamine overdoses are difficult to identify.
Known harmful side effects include amphetamine induced: insomnia, weight loss, impaired judgment, mood disorder, and psychosis, psychotic disorder with hallucinations, psychotic disorder with delusions, anxiety, cardiovascular adverse event, chemical dependency, serotonin syndrome (Libby Zion Law), tics and other movement disorders.
Mia Lilien, Author of FARSNUF, a Guide to ADHD Free
Good parents seek out medical advice for crying toddlers. Toddlers should not be chemically punished for their behavior. Toddlers should not be experimented on for being inattentive, impulsive and hyperactive.
Good doctors understand pediatric physiology; immature liver and kidneys impair drug metabolism and excretion. Toddlers are especially vulnerable to adverse drug reactions and adverse drug events. Doctors are not required by the FDA to report adverse drug reactions or adverse drug events.
Please sign this petition to protect our nation’s toddlers from being “treated” with amphetamines. Profiting off the brains of babies must stop. The ADHD amphetamine treatment is so excessively disproportionate for toddlers as to shock the general moral sense. Doctors are not required to tell a patient that a drug is being used off-label. Amphetamine overdoses are difficult to identify.
Known harmful side effects include amphetamine induced: insomnia, weight loss, impaired judgment, mood disorder, and psychosis, psychotic disorder with hallucinations, psychotic disorder with delusions, anxiety, cardiovascular adverse event, chemical dependency, serotonin syndrome (Libby Zion Law), tics and other movement disorders.
Mia Lilien, Author of FARSNUF, a Guide to ADHD Free