Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:35 PM, Richard Man wrote: > I'm not an expert, but I can speak on some of this from personal > experience, both of our kids have ADD. > > First of all, child abuse is child abuse. Hitting someone, or locking > them up for hours, is child abuse. You may argue about the gray areas > but no amount of justifications work in some cases. whoa, wait, you just lost me going from paragraph 1 to 2... how did you get there? and why ? Steve > > We, as a nation, is over-medicating our children, and ourselves. May > be it's pharmaceutical drive to make money, or just an indication that > our personal health and the health industry are breaking down. When > 2/3 of Americans are overweight and we are looking for the diet pills, > the wheels have fallen off the wagons long ago. > > ADD kids, and adult, often are the ones that see outside the box. In > the earlier times, they are the tricksters, the chao ones. The ones > that move things out of the doldrums. They are not easy to handle, and > some of them may need medications to help them along, but they are not > un-attentive, lazy, disruptive because they want to, etc. > > Ritalin is often the wrong drugs. What some of these kids need the > most are time for them to mature, and love and understanding to > support them. > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com > > wrote: >> >> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/experts/explosion.html >> >> I am not at all an expert on this, not even close, but this is eye >> opening >> information. I've seen data which says as much as 5-7 or 8 % of >> American >> kids are on Ritalin... >> >> in principle they have ADHD, but the diagnoses are so suspect, the >> criteria >> so slipshod, that it is thought that half of ADHD kids are not on the >> medication, and that many of the kids receiving the drug, do not have >> ADHD... >> >> >> perhaps there are others here that can speak to this... >> > > -- > // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com > // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: > http://rfman.wordpress.com > // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information