In the article "Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School", Dr. Michael Anderson focuses on how children struggle in school and what can be done to cure that. Michael hears about children struggling in school, he usually gives them something to cure it which is the pill: Adderall.

      The pills boost the focus and impulse control in children worth attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Even though A.D.H.D is the diagnosis DR. Anderson makes, he calls the disorder “made up” and “an excuse” to prescribe the pills to treat what he considers the children’s true problem --- poor academic performances in inadequate schools. “I don’t have a whole lot of choice,” said Dr. Anderson, a pediatrician. Dr. Anderson is one of the most outspoken proponents of an idea that is gaining interest among some physicians. They are providing stimulants to struggling students in schools with low money --- not to treat A.D.H.D., necessarily, but to boost their academic performance.

     I think that this is a good idea to a certain extent. The children getting the pills are young so when they get older they are going to yearn for the pills and they may not necessarily need them anymore. It’s almost like their hooked on these pills and they don’t need to be. I understand that Dr. Anderson gives these pills to them to keep them so that they have better academic performances but, it’s hurting them and making it better at the same time.  Some experts see little harm in a responsible physician using A.D.H.D. medications to help a struggling student but others, even among the many like Dr. Rappaport who praise the use of stimulants as treatment for classic A.D.H.D --- fear that doctors are exposing children to unnecessary risks. Some effects of this drug has included growth suppression, increased blood pressure and, in rate cases, psychotic episodes.

      This article makes me wonder about the amount of children that took the pills and now have problems. I feel bad for them because I feel as though it wasn’t necessarily their fault.