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(FDA) also does not prohibit researchers from having financial interests with the drug companies whose products they are testing. However, they do require disclosure under certain circumstances, according to Crystal Rice, a spokesperson for the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "With regards to financial disclosure by researchers, to summarize, I have been told that if the manufacturing company is a publicly traded company and the clinical investigator/researcher has financial ties of $50,000 or more, then [the relationship] must be disclosed to the FDA. If it is a non-publicly traded company, [the researcher] must disclose any amount of financial ties to the FDA

This whole thing is crazy. Let's go train a whole bunch of little kids that the only way to get through the day is to be a drug user and then act surprised later when they become herion addicts and crackheads. Great, just great. If your kid has a problem, there's no reason now to solve the problem. Just put them on drugs and forget about it!

I chimed in on this the last time we had an ADHD forum ... I'll try to give the short version ... I have a 7-year-old son who was diagnosed last September as being ADHD and has been on Ritalin ever since then, taking the drug only on school days.

We resisted the idea of this, because of all the stuff we'd "heard," because of all the concerns that have been expressed like these, because of the stigma of "having our kid on drugs."

When we finally decided to do it, it was our decision and ours alone. We did have a couple of meetings at our child's school about what was going on, but we got no pressure, zero, zilch, to put him on Ritalin. We were told that it was our call and that the school would stand behind us. Of course that probably stems from the fact that our child goes to a private Christian school and not a public school.

Anyway, this drug has worked wonders for our child. Except for penmanship ... his school is old-fashioned and still grades strictly on that, and he writes about like his Dad (badly) and is left-handed to boot ... he makes straight A's. He's active in sports, music and at church. He plays like any other child. It has not turned him into a drooling zombie.

Bottom line, we did not do this in any shape, form or fashion because of any behavior or hyperness problems, he's a typical beany 7-year-old boy but has never given us anything we haven't been able to handle. Unless we're talking about somebody with serious mental problems, I wouldn't think a whole lot of a parent who drugged his child just to make him behave.

The problem our child had was that in school, he was off on his own private planet, off on his own private cloud, in a different area code than everyone else ... you get the picture ... and simply could not focus on his work. Now he does. So we are glad we made this decision and it has worked for us. Is it for everyone else? I of course would not make that statement. But it has worked for our child.

....Atomic ,glad you found this useful as a companion post. I found this article the other night while on Crusade Radio in the Patriots of the Republic room. The scarey part is that teachers are advocates of drugging children as a first choice. What ever happened to alternative methods of teaching?I guess when you don't want to be held accountable for why kids can't read it fits into your agenda that they have a "documented history" of instability.Let's medicate instead of advocate and for the sake of the children please don't hold the teachers accountable....

FWIW- my links:

Rx Nation- are our children being medicated to death?

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