[Gondring]

It's like the horrific use of antibiotics once they were discovered!

[DoughtyOne]

Little boys at the mercy of our ilustrious education system. I've got a great idea, let's double the budget again, wheeeeeeeeeeeeee...

[lafroste]

Children with ADHD who are not given stimulant drugs are more likely to develop problems with drug abuse and dependency than those who are

I would like to see where this little unchallenged factoid came from.

[non-anonymous]

Why don't they prescribe some intensive physical education? When I run 7-10 miles a week I feel less jittery, it strengthens my posture muscles so I sleep better, and I feel like I'm getting more oxygen to my brain.

And it works for my pup as well. If I don't walk her every day, she's a lot harder to deal with.

[maine-iac7]

5% - I remember one of the major drug companies (for whom this practice of doping our children is a windfall) once justifying that the side effects - including violence, suicidal thoughts, etc ONLY affected a small percentage.

Well, 5% of 4 million is 200,000 - a year.

Add to that the fact that these drugs were never tested for safety with children - and the fact that almost to a case, the school shootings were done by kids on these drugs!

It's not the guns or the pipe bombs - it's the cult of legal drug pushing on our most venerable.

The brightest boys, who are bored in the dumbed down schools, often clown around and are a prime target to get quieted down for the teacher's benefit - rather than upping the level of teaching. And if the parent complains and fights the drugging they can be charged with child abuse.

It's time for this horror to be stopped. Child abuse, pure and simple.

[Fishing-guy]

The solution is to only let child psychiatrists evaluate and prescribe these medications. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of child psychiatrists in this country.

[CowboyJay]

ADHD is real, but not nearly as pervasive as the drug-pushers in the Pharm lobby would like us to believe.

A great number of those mis-diagnosed are actually highly intelligent kids who are simply bored to tears by the current ethic of our lowest-common-denominator 'no child left behind' public schools.

Others just don't take to the socialist brain-washing that goes on there. Others are just more suited to physical tasks (they are hard workers). I also partially credit the de-emphasis on physical education. Kids need excercise.

When drugs are being prescribed purely to facilitate a lack of creativity on the part of educators, the kids are being done no favors.

[aruanan]

Just as worrying, large numbers of children who do have ADHD are going undiagnosed.

Ha ha ha. Sure.

[AmericaUnite]

So glad my son never went on any drug. We have used Medical Orgone Therapy. Described in a rather long article here http://www.orgonomy.org/article_094.html and my son is miles ahead of the other kids we've known since he was 4 who are/were given Ritalin.

[joebuck]

"This followed a review of evidence of the drugs' psychiatric side effects, including disturbing hallucinations often involving worms, snakes or insects"

This is a very common symtom of stimulent abuse. The hallucination is more ofter tactile than visual. The abusers say they feel bugs or snakes crawling on or under their skin. This is so common among cocaine abusers that it is referred to as "coke bugs"

[Rockitz]

For a non-drug treatment of ADD and ADHD see

http://www.drakeinstitute.com/

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