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Subject: [Leica] Very OT, PBS - frontline: medicating kids: the ritalin explosion
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:03:01 -0800
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On Nov 3, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> The funny thing is that while waiting for my flight back to Alicante  
> in Copenhagen airport this morning, I noticed a headline about this  
> very issue on the cover of one of the German weekly news magazines-- 
> can't remember if it was Stern or Der Spiegel. In any event, for  
> whatever reason, the issue is apparently being talked about on both  
> sides of the Atlantic.

sure is...
like autism and vaccines...
lot's of talk...no data, or in the face of data that is clear...
but some pay no attention to it,


nuff said, and as this is OT , I suggest we stop discussion here....


thanks Nathan, Steve


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> On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Steve Barbour 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...
>>
>>
>> Steve
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In reply to: Message from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Very OT, PBS - frontline: medicating kids: the ritalin explosion)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Very OT, PBS - frontline: medicating kids: the ritalin explosion)