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10,000 Young Toddlers Are on Stimulant Drugs for ADHD
http://www.huffingtonpost.com ^ | May 17, 2014 | Allen Frances, M.D

Posted on 05/17/2014 3:03:09 PM PDT by Veto!

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Dr. Frances is one of the good guys, was chairman of DSM4 group and the loudest critic of DSM5, which makes everything a "disease" to be treated with drugs. Most of the DSM5 participants also worked for drug companies.
1 posted on 05/17/2014 3:03:10 PM PDT by Veto!
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To: Veto!

How many will go on to be mass killers, ala Columbine, etc.?


2 posted on 05/17/2014 3:05:07 PM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: Veto!

Dr. Frances has a regular column at HuffPo, and he’s brilliantly readable.
You can find out more about him at, of all places:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/

I also liked his April editorial, “No Child Left Undiagnosed.”


3 posted on 05/17/2014 3:05:21 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Pharmboy

Ping.


4 posted on 05/17/2014 3:06:29 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: x1stcav

Well, we don’t know how many will be mass killers, do we? And neither do the BigPharma-supported shrinks.


5 posted on 05/17/2014 3:06:41 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!

Some children — I don’t know about toddlers — do require pharmaceutical treatment for ADHD. A newer drug, Strattera, is used for that purpose and is not a stimulant.


6 posted on 05/17/2014 3:09:16 PM PDT by steve86
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To: Veto!

how many of these people actually have children?


7 posted on 05/17/2014 3:12:02 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: steve86

Some kids probably do need treatment, but not anywhere near the number that are taking dangerous meds. Psychiatrists used to counsel patients; now they give them drugs at their first appointment. Many, including the distinguished psychiatrist/professor/author of this piece on HuffPo, are up in arms about this situation.


8 posted on 05/17/2014 3:13:17 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!

ADHD= Avoiding Discipline-Helping Delinquents

99% of ADHD can be cured with a smack on the arse.


9 posted on 05/17/2014 3:15:17 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: Veto!

Just the ‘RATS prepping them to be programmed as obedient little commie ‘RATS.


10 posted on 05/17/2014 3:16:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Veto!

I think the majority will qualify.

The blame for this lies with the fiminazi educrats.

Pitchforks!


11 posted on 05/17/2014 3:19:12 PM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: Veto!

I hate to nitpick, but ... YOUNG toddlers ? Really ? YOUNG ones ?


12 posted on 05/17/2014 3:20:24 PM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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99% of ADHD can be cured with a smack on the arse.

I guess you're jokingly suggesting that would help with the attention deficit portion as well. Does it also work with adults who continue having problems with concentration and task-focus? Thinking about the adult ADHD patients I worked with I'm skeptical. Would it even be legal to assault them in the way you're suggesting? /

13 posted on 05/17/2014 3:20:49 PM PDT by steve86
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To: icwhatudo

Not sure of the 99%, but some definitely will. Here are more comments from Dr. Frances blaming the “epidemic” of ADHD diagnoses on BigPharma.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/new-york-times-adhd_b_4460254.html


14 posted on 05/17/2014 3:21:54 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!

Giving uppers to toddlers strikes me as like throwing gasoline on a fire.


15 posted on 05/17/2014 3:22:17 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Veto!

And is Eric Holder going to break up that criminal racket? Of course not.


16 posted on 05/17/2014 3:23:47 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: layman

That’s the Huffpo headline. I squinted at it too, but it did grab your attention and mine.

Come to t hunk of it, what is a toddler? I think of the age when they still walk with their arms out for balance. Other people might think of clothing sizes. Or before they get out of diapers.

Or before they’re old enough to drink?


17 posted on 05/17/2014 3:25:01 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: RichInOC

Exactly!!!! And the long-term effects, which have not been tested, might burn down the town. Maybe literally.


18 posted on 05/17/2014 3:26:32 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: darkangel82
is Eric Holder going to break up that criminal racket?

Not until they change his meds.

19 posted on 05/17/2014 3:27:33 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: steve86

That garbage is worse than speed. I took it for a few weeks and it spaced me out and caused severe hyper focus. It would occur at random times, putting me in a day dream stage where I would lose minutes just staring off into nothing. Id rather have attention issues than be on drugs all day that have the same or worse side effects than street drugs.


20 posted on 05/17/2014 3:28:12 PM PDT by drunknsage
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