The truth is, there aren't many people you can trust in this world. Especially when it comes to children, parents are always very careful and careful about who can meet their child. The world we live in today is vastly different from the one we lived in a few decades ago. With traditions and culture; technology has taken care of everything. Technology has become the root cause of major changes in everything we know today. Parenting has also become a target of technology. But among all these changes, doctors seem to be maintained as professionals that parents still trust and rely on wholeheartedly, even though medical research and technology are completely new in diagnosing and prescribing medications. drugs. Surprisingly, it can be very difficult to realize that even though we blindly trust doctors, they still prescribe to children a drug that comes from the same class and chemical compound as cocaine. Drugs that contain the same chemical compound as a narcotic are called Class 2 drugs. Knowing that Class 2 drugs have the same classification as cocaine, morphine, and amphetamines, American doctors continue to prescribe these drugs to children aged 5 to 17 simply due to behavioral problems at school and at home that parents continue to advocate in their children. Has the use of technology and reliance on quick fixes taken over the way we view parenting? It can be hard to realize that this could be the case today! Parents have become so accustomed to the quick and easy fixes of 2014 that they have forgotten that their children are still humans and not apps that can be stifled or manipulated via medication. Parents and doctors who simply prescribe...... middle of paper ...... . July 8, 2014 “Managing Side Effects of ADHD Medications.” Brown University Child & Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update 15.2 (2013): 8. Academic research completed. Internet. July 8, 2014.LaJeana D. Howie, MPH, CHES; Patricia N. Pasteur, Ph.D.; and Susan L. Lukacs, DO, MSPHCDC/National Center for Health Statistics. Use of medications prescribed for emotional or behavioral difficulties among children aged 6 to 17 years in the United States. April 24, 2014. Web June 25, 2014.Robyn Breen Shinn. JR Getty. Why giving Adderall to toddlers is so completely wrong. 19.05.14. 01/07/2014.< http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/19/why-giving-adderall-to-toddlers-is-so-complet-utterly-wrong.html>