[commonguymd]

What is new is the lowered age of prescribe for drugs like Prozac. With existing drugs flatlining in sales, the new market opportunities come with treating the symptoms of Autism in specific categories with drugs such as this. Follow the money, and the new SSI opportunities for parents and funding for schools. The age now is 7 where it can be prescribed. Also, look at Haldol and Valium. Autism is not old, it is the new fashionable badge that used to be ADD and ADHD. Ritalin has gotten a bad name and you should check the CDC because they can’t even answer the question as to the exponential increase in diagnosis. I bet one could correlate the increase in Autism to a decrease in ADD and ADHD.

[muawiyah]

Autism is what? Did you say it's not old? Your statement is contract to readily verifiable known fact and the eperience of many Freepers.

Don't be making stuff up about this problem.

[OKIEDOC]

commonguymd wrote:
What is new is the lowered age of prescribe for drugs like Prozac. With existing drugs flatlining in sales, the new market opportunities come with treating the symptoms of Autism in specific categories with drugs such as this. Follow the money, and the new SSI opportunities for parents and funding for schools. The age now is 7 where it can be prescribed. Also, look at Haldol and Valium. Autism is not old, it is the new fashionable badge that used to be ADD and ADHD. Ritalin has gotten a bad name and you should check the CDC because they can’t even answer the question as to the exponential increase in diagnosis. I bet one could correlate the increase in Autism to a decrease in ADD and ADHD

Comment:

What is your specialization?

As the father of a child diagnosed by more than 15 professionals as having Autism and the husband of a Medical Doctor would you please expand on your remarks?

Do you believe that parents are using the Autism diagnosis as an excuse or ruse to obtain Social Security?

The high number of children diagnosed by doctors is caused by their ignorance of what really constitutes Autism?

That Autism is the new fad in diagnosis that drug companies are using to push very expensive drugs?

Further Comment:

I am interested in what you have to say on the subject since so many GP doctors misdiagnose Autism.

My wife is inclined to believe that no drugs at all would be best if possible and situation was right.

We are contemplating moving to an area where we can just take our child off drugs and see whether that will make a big difference in his treatment.

We are inclined to blame everything on the drug companies and that is not correct.

Drug companies are easy prey but we must remember that many factors go into why kids are diagnosed with autism.

Factors such as pressure from the school administration and intimidation from the state in the form of Gestapo like Child Protective Services.

It is easier for all concerned if we just dump a child’s entire problem into one big gigantic diagnosis.