KOBOKO VS MEDICINAL DRUGS IN ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER.

ADHD today is the most commonly studied child psychiatric disorder
and well there there had been a say from the beginning of time for its cure.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. (Holy Bible prov22vs15).
Recently, i came by a comic picture of the typical Nigerian cane (koboko) with a tag that its been saving life since...........it was discovered it could bring pain that will make a child sober and think. However this brings us to the daily increase in number of children being diagnosed of this illness and it brings this question to mind, Do we have it in Africa?
"ADHD is found to be as prevalent on the African continent as in
Western countries (Meyer, 1998; Meyer, Eilertsen, Sundet, Tshifularo,
& Sagvolden, 2004). The predominant Western approach to
understanding mental disorders is based on a biomedical perspective that
regards primary syndromes as universal and similar across diverse human
cultures. A basic question is to what degree behaviour and its disturbances
are affected by culture".
The inability to inhibit behavioral responses leads to risk taking
behaviour like drug and alcohol abuse, tobacco smoking, premarital and
promiscuous sex, driving anger and traffic offences, accident proneness,
compulsive buying and tattooing and body piercing (Barkley, 2004;
Barkley, Fischer, Smallish, & Fletcher, 2004; Carroll, Riffenburgh,
Roberts, & Myhre, 2002; Fillmore & Rush, 2002; Kahn, Kaplowitz,
Goodman, & Emans, 2002; Lam, 2002; Molina, Bukstein, & Lynch, 2002;
Roberts & Tanner, Jr., 2000; Tercyak, Lerman, & Audrain, 2002).
A high incidence of crime, substance abuse, and especially the very
high rate of HIV infection in South Africa, and its possible relationship to
ADHD, necessitated an investigation into the prevalence and neuropsychological manifestations of the disorder.
So how true is this, will the African child have to be subjected to those drugs Americans think has its management abilities or do we go back to our use of native admonishments like local koboko, pankere and its like?
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