to get in good schools and they give this medicine to these kids. i so passionately disagree with these blanket statement. there are certain medications, whether they re antidepressants that help children and certain ones that don t need to make a blanket state that say parents are giving their kids medication. you think oxycontin is overprescribed? that s a drug on the street. that s a nashlgt. there s a little bit of a different between a narcotic. how about antibiotics that are making us more than likely to get some of these horrible viruss. i think we as a country get into these blanket statements where as right now, over medication is a problem. is the point overdiagnosis? and that s not what s normal. my point is the diagnosis can be there is for the parents to decide what you do about that medication may be the answer and it may not be the answer. we can t hide our fact to say that there s more diagnosis.
we just have more information now. but do you think medication is necessary? sometimes yes, sometimes no. but zisn t it possible that we re seeing all of these kids and just medicating them. you keep saying they. my point is there are more options now and parents need to have the responsibility whether kids do or don t need medication. i think we re too quick to medicate. i agree with you that we have more information nowadays. so we re diagnosing. similar to the concussion issue in the nfl. they ve always been there. but in the last 10-15 years. so are we overmedicating? my point is when we start making changes, are we overreacting? well, i think you have to deal with each issue differently. some kids need the medication. they may be able similar disturb i m sorry, similar to you, they may be able to develop those coping skills to navigate through it. but i think nowadays, parents are too quick to go to a doctor.
it s frightening. sipsychologists said she saw sis of schizophrenia. we have a classmate of his wrote you will see this guy on the news with an automatic weapon. and then he shoots 19 people. but this has been ignored because the focus has been on guns. you politicize. it s not it s not it s all, you know, to said that we re focused we shouldn t focus on guns. we haven t haeeard about menl health. the average american, 90% of americans want atmatic weapons. it s that simple. 40% of guns in this country are purchased without a background check. can you imagine 40% of passengers? let me finish. can you imagine 40% of passengers getting only your airplane? he passed a background check. that s one thing. so to the point, want p what she s saying is we can t just pass laws to make us feel better
it was bacon flavored ice cream. i thought how great is that. i want to show you a dress that you definitely don t want to wear to the dog park. and this is a dress here, yeah, you don t want to wear this to take your dog to the baseball game. it s a whole dress made of bacon. how great is that? that s disgusting. i m sorry. there s a there s a socal california chain that has a burger that is entirely made up of bacon. and then they put bacon on top and bacon cheddar cheese. achbt then they put bacon on top just for fun. i don t want to be the party popper. but somewhere along the line, the entire economy doesn work because of health care issue. but i don t want to be the budding point. just because we like bacon doesn t mean that s the obesity problem. literally, these fast food companies do not stop in the level of lard. so should we ban all bad foods? no, that s the problem. it s a problem.
this is 6.4 million children. by the way, that number is up 50% in the last decade. so are we have we just is there a new normal? or are we overmedicating our children? neither. it s basically more information. look, i, as a kid, would have been diagnosed with adhd. there s not even a question. yeah, i can believe that. and i do think that we can t say oh my god, we re overmedicating. we re overmedicating. i m going to make a point about parents. no study is going to tell me that if i had a kid that had needs, i m going to medicate or not. i hate these things we re overmedicating our children. we have more information out there. what parents do with it, it s up to them. you just said you re adhd. no, i had the coping skills to be able to navigate around it. some kids don t. by the way, my parents would have made a decision. do i need medication or not.