And I never said it did. In fact, you will actually READ my post, I said it wasn't the sole answer and we still work at getting him to apply himself. He is being assessed and enrolled in a learning center also, because he needs to learn skills to cope with his lack of concentration power.
I work in the medical industry, BTW, so you don't have to preach to me about most drugs treating the symptom and all the woes of the drug comanies. But if the root 'problem' is that my child is lacking chemicals in the brain that help regulate attention and activity (dopamine and norepinephrine),(just like he could be lacking an insulin-producting pancreas and thus be diabetic), then substituting a medication that would at least allow him to learn and retain basic skills for dealing with this throughout his life would be the logical thing to do.
I have full confidence that with medication and proper schooling/training, that our son will learn the skills needed be the successful young man he can be. You're not talking to a parent who is just tired of parenting and wants to drug her kid.
Sorry, you still have a 'drug' mentality.