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Title: US survey: 1 in 10 kids has ADHD, awareness cited
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AP Medical Writer
URL Source: http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11 ... kids-adhd-awareness-cited.html
Published: Nov 14, 2010
Author: MIKE STOBBE
Post Date: 2010-11-14 12:42:28 by abraxas
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Views: 1098
Comments: 71
US survey: 1 in 10 kids has ADHD, awareness cited November 10, 2010 By MIKE STOBBE , AP Medical Writer (AP) -- A government survey says 1 in 10 U.S. children has ADHD, a sizable increase from a few years earlier that researchers think might be explained by growing awareness and better screening. Child ADHD Treatment - 30 day trial - free. Children's ADHD medicine. Save money today. - www.ADHDTreatmentforKids.com ADHD, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, makes it hard for kids to pay attention and control impulsive behavior. It's often treated with drugs, behavioral therapy, or both. The new study found that about two-thirds of the children who have ADHD are on medication. The estimate comes from a survey released Wednesday that found an increase in ADHD of about 22 percent from 2003 to the most recent survey in 2007-08. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention interviewed parents of children ages 4 through 17 in both studies. In the latest survey, 9.5 percent said a doctor or health care provider had told them their child had ADHD. The earlier study found that fewer than 8 percent of kids had been diagnosed with it. Researchers calculate about 5.4 million kids have been diagnosed with ADHD, which suggests that about 1 million more children have the disorder than a few years earlier. Scientists don't have clear answers about why there was such a significant increase. Study lead author Susanna Visser of the CDC suggests greater awareness and stepped-up screening efforts as part of the explanation. "Regardless of what's undergirding this, we know more parents are telling us their children have ADHD," Visser said. One expert found it hard to believe that so many kids might have ADHD. "It sounds a little high," said Howard Abikoff, a psychologist who is director of the Institute for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and Behavior Disorders at New York University's Child Study Center. Other studies have suggested more like 5 percent of kids have ADHD, and there are no known biological reasons for it to be on a recent increase, he added. Abikoff noted the CDC study is based on parents saying that a health care provider told them their child had ADHD, but it's not known who the health-care provider was or how thorough the assessment was. ADHD diagnosis is a matter of expert opinion. There's no blood test or brain-imaging exam for the condition. Sometimes reading disabilities or other problems in the classroom cause a teacher or others to mistakenly think a child has ADHD, he said. The CDC study noted an increase in diagnoses was seen in kids of all races and family income levels, and across all regions of the country except the West. The survey covered 73,000 children. Of those who had ADHD at the time of the latest survey, about half had a mild form. The research appears in the CDC publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. More information: APHA: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr
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#1. To: abraxas (#0)
www.naturalchild.org/guest/david_keirsey.html The reason I speak of a hoax in the case of "attention deficit disorder" is that there is no such "mental disorder" to "diagnose" and "treat." And the reason I speak of a great hoax is that the less competent medical practitioners use this phony "diagnosis" as a warrant to "treat" millions of school children (over 5,000,000) per year by intoxicating them with brain-disabling narcotics. end quote.
It's all a big pharma scam to make money off doping children. Notice how the government is now doing the "research" on the topic for the benefit of big pharma. It's disgusting.
I always assumed they were going to try and get my to put my oldest on drugs but they didn't. I told them to keep his mind occupied or he would become a discipline problem. He had pretty good teachers until high school. The school system is not geared to handle kids like him.
I still remember my little garden helper from where I lived last. She was a bundle of energy and could never sit still for more than a few minutes, and boy was that little girl sharp. Thankfully her parents home schooled because sure as the sun rises the Skool Systum would have classified her as "ADHD" when the reality was that she was simply a bundle of free spirited energy with a well above average I.Q.. I remembered her a few years later when I listened to Charlotte Isebyt, or might have been Beverly Eakman, on the radio talking about how the kids most targeted for the phony "ADHD" label were high energy above normal I.Q. kids. Also I recall her saying that 85% of those targeted were boys i.e., realistically future leaders of any resistance. So, it became clear to me that the real point of the "ADHD" label and drugging was to intellectually geld the kids that would be most likely to be "a problem" under any New World Order. In other words they would not make good, placid, complacent slaves.
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I still recall the schools before unionization and much in the way of Federal involvement. Teachers became teachers because they enjoyed being teachers - not to make a big fat government salary - because they really were not paid that well. Most of the industrious ones would work summer jobs while school was out. I recall my succession of "Old Maid" School Marms in Montana and they taught because they liked it and the kids in their classes were the kids they never had. So, it worked out well all the way around. I still appreciate Miss Reardon, third grade, who treated her favorites more harshly and more demandingly than the other kids - so that she would not show favoritism. I was on the receiving end, but she did force me to really learn. I suspect that by the end of third grade I would have been 2 to 3 grades higher, as far as knowledge, as compared to todays skools.
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Yes, and just think of all the things that we fools thought that the chimpy-one would do away with. Never again will I trust anyone who is selected to play at that level. They are NWO, Bilderberger, Izzy-loving spotty douche-bags.
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Yes. It is past time to reject them all.
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#2. To: titorite (#1)
#3. To: abraxas, titorite, Eric Stratton, farmfriend, all (#2)
#4. To: Original_Intent, abraxas, titorite, Eric Stratton, (#3)
#14. To: farmfriend, abraxas, titorite, Eric Stratton, all (#4)
"Nothing has harmed the quality of individual life in modern society more than the misbegotten belief that human suffering is driven by biological and genetic causes and can be rectified by taking drugs or undergoing electroshock therapy. ... If I wanted to ruin someone's life, I would convince the person that that biological psychiatry is right - that relationships mean nothing, that choice is impossible, and that the mechanics of a broken brain reign over our emotions and conduct. If I wanted to impair an individual's capacity to create empathetic, loving relationships, I would prescribe psychiatric drugs, all of which blunt our highest psychological and spiritual functions."
Peter R. Breggin, M.D., in the foreword to "Reality Therapy in Action" by William Glasser, M.D., p. xi
#24. To: Original_Intent, farmfriend, abraxas, titorite, all (#14)
#27. To: Eric Stratton (#24)
The Skool Systum is designed for those running it, needless to say to you.
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#61. To: Eric Stratton, 4 (#48)
Reagan should have, if he was for real, done away with the DoE immediately.
#65. To: Lod (#61)
#66. To: Eric Stratton, 4 (#65)
I was just having a discussion with the Mrs., and I was saying to her that anyone that would crave such wealth and/or power has to have some serious mental/emotional "quirks" to understate matters. Extreme narcissism comes to mind.
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