[Teflonic]

They will never rest until ALL children are medicated into compliance. There was no such thing as ADHD 20 years ago and we all grew up just fine.

[Lady Heron]

I had 2 boys who would have been labeled and drugged if I had left them in school to fail. Instead I took them out, home schooled them and gave them a chance to outgrow the worst of it and to learn how to deal with it. I used the violin to teach control and concentration and hockey to let out energy, spent years repeating over and over "go on to the next problem" when after each time they had finished an answer in their school work they needed to talk, daydream or move about(it would have taken days if ever to finish a lesson if left on their own).

By 14 they both had been trained to control themselves and their attention span without need for drugs. They both can and do succeed well now in a classroom situation.

It took my time and effort and was a pain in the... well you get the picture, but they were my children and I wanted to give them a chance for success before I let anybody drug them to make it easier for some teacher who has to keep control of 30 kids. Of the 2, the one who has finished high school is now at Juilliard, something he would never have been able to accomplish had he been left in school on drugs.

[antiRepublicrat]

And 99% of kids being treated for ADHD probably don't really have it.

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

yup, let's just medicate/treat us all against every possible ill...;)

after all, just a couple of weeks ago we discovered the "Intermittent Explosive Disorder" and I believe I may have suffered from that once or twice in my years...:o

[GodfearingTexan]

where is this BS coming from? why are people so blind and stupid that they can't see that this is all hogwash? discipline your kids. they'll learn eventually.

[Thrusher]

ADHD is actually caused by Global Warming. You'll learn all about it in An Inconvenient Truth II.

[Mr. Brightside]

Yeah. That's the problem. Not enough kids on Ritalin.

That's the answer.

[Bogtrotter52]

I did a quick scan......it did not say who funded the research. Indirectly it could be a ritalin manufacturer. Would also be curious to know if any of the researchers have a connection to companies or would benefit in some way from the increased drugging of kids

[dinoparty]

If there is more ADHD, I bet its because of the parental tendency to allow infants and toddlers to vegetate in front of a TV, where there can now be found 24-hour baby and kid channels. Its been shown to affect brain development.

[leda]

The study found that most of the children without ADHD who took medication did have some symptoms of ADHD — some hyperactivity or problems with inattention — but not enough symptoms to meet formal diagnostic criteria as defined by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV). The study also found that most of the kids who took medication without an ADHD diagnosis had a twin who did have the disorder.

ok, i just do not understand this. one twin fully met the
diagnosis criteria and was taking medication. the other did
not meet criteria but was also taking medication because
their twin was????? what kind of nonsense is this??????