9% of U.S. Kids Have ADHD

Yahoo News ^ | 9-3-07 | By Steven Reinberg

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What?

[RightWhale]

This did not exist a few years ago. It is epidemic now as the state finds it has the power to diagnose.

[Sacajaweau]

There's a drug for everything. But few cures. I'm sure if I took this old Chevy (c'est moi) to a doctor, they'd prescribe a few drugs.

I know some people need meds and consider myself fortunate.

Find CURES...like they did for polio...and stop trying to "Cure" Old Age and "behavior" within the "tiny norm" they have created.

[subterfuge]

Even a few hours of tv a day and youre bombarded with hundreds of ads for different products that are constantly vying for your attention.

ON average, Americans see about 16,000 advertisments in a given day.

[BwanaNdege]

Nearly 9 percent of American children have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...

characterized by hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity…

negative consequences associated with the disorder, such as lower rates of school and career achievement and higher rates of substance abuse, incarceration, injuries and car accidents.

"It is clear once again that it is the poorest of our community who are deprived of the benefits of the most effective treatment -- psychopharmacology for this condition," he said.

What a bunch of hogwash! (I'm gonna get an earful from the professional educators among my friends & family)

50 years ago at least 25% would have been diagnosed this way. Yep, 50% of the class were boys, and at least half of those were "rambunctious"! If they didn't settle down, behave & pay attention, Mrs. Chapman always had her paddle as backup (pun intended).

It's called a lack of discipline and self control. True leaders, from Mrs. Chapman and Mrs Riefschneider to Coach Thornton to Gunnery Sargeant Truell had ways of GETTING MY ATTENTION, and MOTIVATING me to DISCLIPINE myself. IF I didn't do it myself, they had the means AT HAND to ASSist me.

And they wonder why drug dependency is so prevalent

negative consequences associated with the disorder, such as lower rates of school and career achievement and higher rates of substance abuse, incarceration, injuries and car accidents.

Lack of SELF-DISCIPLINE!

[mrs. a]

I think a lot of these cases have been misdiagnosed, and the kids are actually suffering from PDD - Parental Discipline Disorder.

[freekitty]

You could have fooled me. I thought a lot more had it to push the medicine and control of our youth. Of course, it could only be 9% now that they are pushing bi-polar.

Maybe the rest of them are now bi-polar. Can you believe the idiots that push this kind of stuff? Amazing.

[BwanaNdege]

AMEN!

[Sacajaweau]

Obviously ALL children should be "drugged" at 23 months to stop them from going through "the terrible twos". /sarcasm

Kids are calm or jittery, lazy or ambitious, listen or don't. Gosh...Sounds just like adults!!

[mombyprofession]

I think that Attention Defecit Disorder is not lack of attention on behalf of the child, but on behalf of the PARENT!

[Between the Lines]

Males are more than two times as likely as females to have been diagnosed with ADHD; 10 percent of males, 4 percent of females.

[Sacajaweau]

Friends of mine got called in about their daughter. The parents told them no way she was going on drugs. She graduated from Medical School and is a Doctor today.

[in hoc signo vinces]

Must be some sort of content copyright infringement or something...I dont think the threads were duplicated elsewhere on FR.

[Dionysius]

I thought one out of five kids were being medicated. A big error on the part of my heretofore reliable sources?

[Signalman]

Let’s feed them all Ritalin and other mind-numbing drugs so they can all become good little liberal, Democratic-voting robots.

[CharlesWayneCT]

What's more, children from poor families, who have the highest rates of ADHD, were the least likely to have consistent treatment with medication, Froehlich noted. "In addition, children without health insurance were less likely to be diagnosed and treated," she said.

If this is a real disease, do you "catch" it? IF not, what explains the suggested correlation between annual income and children having the disease? Being poor is not a genetic disorder, after all.

Doctors tried to put me on drugs for hyperactivity, and that was in the 1960s. After a week my mother stopped giving me the pills because I just wasn't "myself". I do have trouble with attention span, I'm always distracted and leaving things around.

[nina0113]

BS. If you want to see my super-laid-back pediatrician brother go berserk, get him started on ADHD. His face actually turns red as he screams about misdiagnosing and medicating perfectly healthy children.

[goodnesswins]

WINNER>...............

Back in the old days the pill was a slap.

[MrB]

I believe the statistics show the occurrence of ADHD* to be much higher than stated in the article.

*Absent Dad/Husband Disorder