Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/02

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Subject: [Leica] Very OT, PBS - frontline: medicating kids: the ritalin explosion
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:15:06 -0800
 
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...


Steve
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