My indignation

In Chile, the state buys every year an average of 400 million of pesos of methylphenidate, a derivate of amphetamine, with similar effects as cocaine, utilized in the treatment of ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), a psychiatric label that is utilized in schools all over the world, to pathologize perfectly normal child behaviors that don’t fit in the educational system.

Instead of questioning the obviously obsolete educational system, children are being strongly drugged with this psychiatric drug, which not only doesn’t work as they advertise it, being a chemical doping for children to artificially achieve better results at schools and not a medical treatment of any means, but also is very dangerous for children’s health, being able to result in side effects such as cardiovascular issues, cerebrovascular issues, headaches, hallucinations, anxiety, height and sexual growth reduction, and even sudden death.

I want to state my indignation, with the national education and health system, which not only allows this practice, but also endorses it, by giving greater funding to those schools that have diagnosed children with ADHD (“Decree 170”), and only offering this kind of treatment, to children than don’t adapt to their schools.