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Children and Medicines

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Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing

Part of the book series: Geographies of Children and Young People ((GCYP,volume 9))

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The message “Keep out of the reach of children” appears on medicine packaging in the UK and many other countries, reflecting an assumption that children are vulnerable and in need of adult protection, while medicines are powerful, dangerous substances that should be controlled by experts. However, a growing literature challenges these assumptions, highlighting young people’s active roles in acquiring and consuming medicines. Even very young children may significantly influence their parents’ medication practices by drawing attention to, feigning, or concealing symptoms, while independent medicine use may begin earlier than many parents realize. The upshot is a paradoxical situation in which children and adolescents often end up taking considerable responsibility for their own medication, but their social and economic positions, along with regulation designed to “protect” them, may limit their ability to do this safely and effectively. Where access to high-quality, formal-sector services is limited and regulation of pharmaceutical markets is weak, young people may resort disproportionately to the informal/unlicensed sector and self-medication, with serious risks to both individual and public health. Engaging with children and adolescents as therapeutic citizens (Nguyen (Antiretroviral globalism, biopolitics, and therapeutic citizenship. In Ong, A., & Collier, S. J. (Eds.), Global assemblages: Technology, politics, and ethics as anthropological problems (pp. 124–144). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing), 2004), with legitimate rights and responsibilities commensurate with their cognitive abilities and social situations, is an important step toward facilitating safe and effective health-seeking practices.

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Hampshire, K. (2016). Children and Medicines. In: Evans, B., Horton, J., Skelton, T. (eds) Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing. Geographies of Children and Young People, vol 9. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-51-4_25

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