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whythre11/08/20241 replyview on HN

I don’t know why you are being downvoted, adhd medication is insanely overprescribed. Turns out, kids get antsy and hard to control after cramming them into overcrowded rooms for 8-9 hours a day doing slop work. Some schools are now forgoing any form of recess at all. Modern public education is inhuman and dystopian.


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epistasis11/08/2024

It is absolutely not the job of a pharmacist to make decisions about which drugs are being overprescribed, and IMHO it's a dangerous thing to suggest. The pharmacist should assess for drug interactions, but we can't burden pharmacists with knowing the details that went into a prescription, and we shouldn't have them second guessing the diagnosis of a doctor. Down that road lies madness.

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