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texasflower,

Thanks for your "take" on this... I agree with all you said.

Also, from personal experience, when my son started kindergarten, they gave him a twenty minute test and told me he had attention problems. I didn't want to believe this and treated him as a "normal" (meaning only children with good parents).

Guess what... he is severly ADHD; it became more obvious as the years and problems went by. He has been arrested three times for "sticky fingers" due to poor impulse control and more many details that need not be presented here including serious problems with school

Lastly, getting him help as a teenager was IMPOSSIBLE, even with good insurance. Too many kids and adults fall thru the cracks, while others are misdiagnosed and medicated without sufficient cause.

Also, as a child, I had some tendencies that would have pointed to bipolar many, many years before I was diagnosed. Could have saved me thousands of dollars, thousands of rough days, and hundreds of "bloopers".

I've always said the prisons are filled with ADD/bipolar/schitzophrenic (SP) people. I firmly believe this altho I don't have stats.

I think this was one of the items mentioned in the report. Would we rather have the prisons overflowing, or maybe evaluate and treat some of these folks to lead productive lives?

Just personal experience, but I do understand what this report is about. However, I would not agree to the extremist outcomes some posters have written and seriously doubt it would even come to that.

Thanks again texasflower. You have brought a semblance of reason throughout this thread, and I thank you.

Best to you, ba7