Perhaps Hillary has a plan that will make this problem 10X worse ...
“becomes apparent in some children in the preschool and early school years and is characterized by hyperactivity, inattention and impulsively”
Isn’t that called being a toddler and kid?
Back when I was a kid, this “disease” was called bad behavior. It was caused mainly by a lack of parental guidance and discipline. There were no “behvioral” diseases or heavily medicated kids in our schools and the problem was usually always fixed by discipline and tough parental love. Not by an MD writing a prescription for Prozac or Ritalin.
Poppycock.
What percentage of the 8.7 percent were male, I wonder?
Let’s just stop all the pretense and drug all the kids so that they’ll be easier to indoctrinate.
Bunch of BS. All the sudden being normal high energy kid has become “wrong” and you need drugs to treat it. In a culture centered around a TV screen with 15 and 30 second ads spaced out every 5 minutes who doesnt have attention deficit? 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.
Give’em plenty of drugs. It worked wonders on their parents.
OTOH 91% do not...
What? Oh sorry, a dog just walked by. What were you all saying?
Back in the old days the pill was a slap.
I don’t believe 9%. 3%maybe? The other 6% need an excuse for bad performance..
Back about 5 years ago our pediatrician and MD, Dr. Silverstein, said my daughter had “a touch of ADD/ADHD.”
This was based upon him looking into her ears and nose, a “concerned” diagnosis from a school administrator and him asking her if she “liked school.”
That was the last time we ever saw that quack and my daughter is now in college, never having taken Ritalin etc.
What?
This did not exist a few years ago. It is epidemic now as the state finds it has the power to diagnose.
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.
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!
I think a lot of these cases have been misdiagnosed, and the kids are actually suffering from PDD - Parental Discipline Disorder.
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.
I thought one out of five kids were being medicated. A big error on the part of my heretofore reliable sources?