New drugs are entering the school, and parents are not aware of it
Outside the withdrawal clinic, Liu Jing is taking her daughter Xuanxuan, who is in junior high school, for treatment.
After the doctor's examination, it was found that Xuanxuan contained amphetamines, commonly known as ecstasy.
Who can believe that such a young child can be addicted to drugs? What's even more unbelievable is that it was his mother who introduced Xuanxuan to the door of drugs...
The picture of mother's love and filial piety always turns into a chicken and a dog jumping at the moment of tutoring the child's homework.
At this time, if someone says: "There is a 'smart drug' that can make children concentrate and get good grades." "Will parents be impressed?
Liu Jing was moved.
The cause of the incident was that Liu Jing's friend's child was diagnosed with ADHD, and the doctor prescribed a medicine to help the child concentrate.
The child can't sit still, and he is always distracted. Liu Jing found that her child also had such symptoms, the high school entrance examination was approaching, and seeing that the child could not calm down to study, she was very anxious about her son Jackie Chan, so she moved the idea of giving the child medicine.
In the process of searching on the Internet, Liu Jing found that this drug is called "smart drug", which is very popular, and is even called "a must-have for scholars".
It is said that after taking these medicines, the child's spirit is more concentrated, and he is not sleepy when he stays up late to prepare for the exam, and he can only barely take the ordinary university, but now it is not a problem to go to "985" and "211"; This medicine is also very safe, and children from Ivy League universities in the United States are taking it...
But this kind of medicine can't be bought in pharmacies, and doctors don't prescribe it without a clear diagnosis certificate, so Liu Jing found overseas agents on the Internet to purchase high-priced imported drugs, and she wanted to help her child at the critical juncture of the high school entrance examination.
Xuan Xuan had no doubts about the pills brought by her mother, her mother said that this was a "smart drug", which could improve her learning status, thinking that she often couldn't calm down to study, and thinking about the declining grades, Xuan Xuan swallowed the pills very resolutely.
At first, Xuan Xuan ate one piece a day and felt that there was not much change. After a while, the dosage became two tablets per day. Xuan Xuan really felt that his concentration in class had improved, and it was not easy to get distracted when listening to the class, as if all kinds of knowledge could be easily learned.
In a monthly exam after taking the medicine, Xuanxuan's grades improved by leaps and bounds, and the teacher asked her to share her experience, and she was concerned.
Two months later, things changed, and Xuan Xuan began to lose his hair and suffer from severe insomnia. Liu Jing discovered the abnormality and asked Xuanxuan to stop the medicine immediately. After stopping the drug, Xuanxuan began to have headaches and nausea, and he couldn't concentrate in class, and his grades dropped seriously. She tried to convince her mother to let her take the medicine again, but was refused.
In order to take the medicine, Xuan Xuan and his mother had the most serious quarrel: You gave me the medicine at the beginning, why don't you let me take it now?!
Xuan Xuan couldn't help it, so he went to the Internet to find and buy medicine. Unlike the previous white pills, the medicine she bought was pink, and the seller said it was because the batch of the medicine was different.
Gradually, Xuan Xuan couldn't do without this little pink pill. It's just a pink pill, which didn't improve her grades, but made her addicted, until Xuanxuan couldn't even go to school, Liu Jing realized that something was wrong and took the child to the hospital.
After testing, the doctor found that the medicine Xuan Xuan took was not a "smart drug" at all, but ecstasy. Parents abuse drugs in order to improve their children's academic performance and push their children into the abyss of drug abuse.
The "smart drug" that is prevalent on the Internet does not refer to a specific drug, it is a class of drugs for the treatment of children's attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including many drugs (we will not show the name of the drug to protect the reader).
These drugs, which improve the attention span of sick children, are strictly prescribed drugs in China by the health authorities on the list of Class I psychotropic drugs.
In recent years, "smart drugs" have gradually entered the public eye, because the number of children diagnosed with ADHD has risen significantly.
In the context of serious involution, a person's concentration is particularly important, and these requirements are also involved in children who are active by nature.
At the beginning of this year, Mr. Wang was very depressed because of a conversation with his son's homeroom teacher.
Mr. Wang's son is in the sixth grade at a regular public primary school. The head teacher said that his son's grades are very unstable, he often can't sit still, he is very active, and his mind is not concentrated enough, and if the child can get rid of this bad habit, he still has great potential.
How to change it? Mr. Wang had also learned about ADHD on the Internet, and it was only after repeated reactions from the teacher that he made up his mind to take his son to the hospital for a check-up. But after the examination, he fell into a more serious tangle.
Unlike other physical diseases, ADHD is diagnosed with laboratory tests, but it is more often diagnosed through various scales.
There are many forms, some of which are filled in by children, but because of the special nature of children, there are many test forms that are filled in by parents. Mr. Wang feels that the results are more influenced by subjective factors.
For example, it is clear that two children are almost the same level of naughty and active, but a delicate and sensitive parent and a smug parent may fill in a large gap.
Even if it is the same child, at different times of school and holidays, parents' feelings are different.
During the holidays, the pace of life slows down a lot, children have time to play, study time is reduced, and parents may not have much worry about their children's inattention and suspected ADHD.
And when it comes to the beginning of the school season, children can't sit still at school, their academic performance drops, class performance is poor, teachers complain, and parents are nervous.
Mr. Wang's son's diagnosis was not ADHD, but he was also on the verge of it.
Around him, there are children with similar symptoms, and some parents end up opting for medication.
Whether to take medicine or not, Mr. Wang is very entangled. Because after taking the drug, the child does perform well in all aspects, and listens to the words of parents and teachers, and learns to focus.
But Mr. Wang felt a kind of fear, and aside from the side effects, is it really a good thing that the child has become well-behaved, obedient, and loves to learn after taking the medicine?
If you want your child to be excellent and obedient, can you solve it with medication in the future?
Is the end of the chicken baby taking medicine?
In fact, regarding the use of psychotropic drugs, a psychiatrist also expressed concern in an interview with a certain media.
First of all, giving a child who is not sick a so-called "smart drug" must do more harm than good.
In addition, he also reported that because of the surge in child psychiatric patients, the average outpatient visit takes more than four minutes to see a patient. In such a short period of time, it is only time to prescribe medicine, and it is impossible to have meaningful conversations, and it is impossible to understand what difficulties the child encounters and why these problems occur, but can only use the "one-size-fits-all" plan of "prescribing medicine".
There is a huge difference between adult and child psychiatric treatment, and the efficacy and safety performance of drug therapy in children are worse than those in adults, and psychotherapy is the preferred clinical treatment option for mild and moderate mental illness.
However, because psychotherapy resources are very limited in mainland China, children with mild mental illness may also be given medication.
However, it is difficult to truly separate the psychiatric and the psychological, and at present, the total supply of psychotherapy is seriously insufficient in all psychiatric departments in China. Even in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, it is much more difficult to register for psychotherapy than for psychiatry.
Giving medicine to children who are not sick, and using medicine to make children "smarter" is tantamount to drinking water to quench thirst, but there are still a large number of students and parents flocking to it, and this "strange phenomenon" reflects the anxiety of the whole society about education.
A few days ago, the entry "children's psychiatry is full" was frequently searched. We're all asking, why are so many kids sick?
In fact, before we pay attention to children, we can first ask, is the adult already sick?
In the eyes of many busy parents, the ideal path of life is probably only this one: study hard, get admitted to university, find a good job...
Then they enroll their children in various tutoring classes, keep their children busy like spinning tops, and strictly plan their children's time, because parents are also experiencing the existential crisis of 996, 007 and unemployment.
And at school, the teacher also seems to be driven crazy...
Not long ago, a female teacher of Jianxing Road Primary School in Guancheng District, Zhengzhou committed suicide by leaving a suicide note, saying, "In addition to teaching work, I should cope with the pressure of extracurricular administrative work such as superior inspection and writing materials, and go to work every day." ”
She was right: "How can unhappy teachers and parents teach positive and optimistic children?" ”
The reality makes us see a cruel truth: everyone may be in an impenetrable pressure network.
In a society with a very low fault tolerance rate, parents are always worried about their jobs, teachers are squeezed by various non-teaching tasks every day, and the pressure passed on at all levels finally falls on children, forming today's hot search - "Children's psychiatry is full".
So it's not so much that there is a problem with the child, but that the social pressure is seriously overloaded, and an invisible rein is put on everyone.
Children are not sick, they may just be experiencing learning problems, life dilemmas, or new challenges.
But the parents and teachers who love them the most do not have the mood and ability to see their children's voices and needs, no one cares who they care about, who they love or hate, where are their motivations, where are their interests, and where are they stuck?
Grades are the only criterion.
And such a result can only become, the child in distress is "sent" to the position of the patient, and everyone goes to take medicine.
Medicines the dilemma of life seems to be fast, but it will never cure the symptoms but not the root cause!
Children, and even all people, need relaxation, care, and love, not medicine.