Way too many people are on these drugs.
I despise every child psychiatrist I've had the pleasure to meet. I can't believe I fell for their BS and medicated my first son for 3 years. They talked about him with him in the room, as though he were a piece of furniture. He may have been small, but he was deeply offended every time. They ALL wanted only to MEDICATE him. I think they only look at children as little metabolisms, waiting for the precious TRUE patient, the pill itself.
My son is fine, and has never been medicated since. (He has Asperger's, which comes with gifts as well as disabilities, like everything else in life -- sometimes you have to look harder for the gifts.) He wasn't a fit for the schools, though, so I homeschool him. He's 12, brilliant, and can program on the computer.