Since the advent of longer-acting ADHD drugs, the lines have decreased, but the number of children on medication continues to increase, says Haber, a developmental behavioral pediatrician at the Fort Worth Child Study Center. [...] “As many as 15 percent of our children and adolescents …
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do you know that for sure??
Perhaps the write of this article is writting from a textboosk and has never eperienced ADD or ADHD.
I do believe ADHD is over diagnosed in numerious young children. The pressures of life this day in age put unrelistic expectaions on young children. I truly feel that more attention from the parents and more physical activity can and will help several children who are suspected of having ADHD. This diagnosis isn’t supposed to be just an easy way for parents to control their children with medication.
I have a co-worker whose son was just a tad exuberant and she went to the doctor and said “He’s ADHD, put him on drugs”, and the doctor did. No testing, no questions, just wrote her a prescription for Ritalin the same day. The boy’s growth has stopped, he doesn’t eat/sleep and cries when he has to take his medicine; so sad…
My abusive ex fiance put his older daughter on meds. She was a perfectly normal child. Now he is sooo happy she gets all A s on her report card and doesnt need to study. He was a person who took steroids in high school so he could harm others in wrestling matches. HE uses physical punishment on his two girls. The other one has a problem with her self esteem. She has a nervous condition. The doctor did nothing to look at the home structure and just slapped a prescription for meds.