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by Dr. Martha Grout Statistical Manual of Mental paper reported that according to school attendance but teachers,
Disorders), lists 14 symptoms; the government's leading, multi- more than parents or doctors,
The American the diagnosis of ADHD can be year study of 579 children11, the refer children for an ADHD Editor: Dawn Irons
Psychiatric Association gave made if a child is found to diagnosis. Drugs are the Assistant Editor: Susan Williams
official recognition to attention have 8 of them: usual consequence. Yet most Advertising Manager: Laura Zeller
deficit disorder (ADD) in 1980. Asst. Advertising Mgr: Tami Conner
The drug Ritalin became widely 1. often fidgets or squirms
"In some cases, teachers surveyed are igno-
rant about many of the
Editorial Calander Manager:
Linda Heming
prescribed to calm the children.
Then in 1997 with the epidemic
2. has trouble staying in
one's seat
ADHD can be drugs' basic aspects, says a
University of Wisconsin-
Distribution: Randi Dumont,
Steve & Rhonda Cope
standing somewhere around
500,000 to 700,000 nationwide,
3. is easily distracted vanquished by eating Eau Claire study.12 Contributors:
Mary Budinger,
4. cannot wait one's turn California neurologist Dr. Donna Reagan, Bryan Rosner
the American Psychiatric 5. blurts out answers foods that build Fred Baughman, author of Kathleen Liporace, Paul Callahan
Association rewrote the diag- 6. has trouble following The ADHD Fraud, How Marjorie Tietjen, Tina Garcia
nostic criteria by adding the instructions strong bodies and Psychiatry Makes "Patients" Scott Forsgren, Dr. Virginia Sherr,
term "hyperactivity" to the 7. cannot sustain attention Out of Normal Children, PJ Langhoff, Dr. Robert Bransfield,
attention deficit attention deficit 8. shifts from one activity learning how to spearheads the arguments
Tami Duncan, Harriet Bishop,
Lisa Copen, Joan Vetter.
disorder. ADD became
AD/HD.1 Mostly.
to another
9. does not play quietly
eliminate those foods against the exploding
AD/HD diagnosis and Website:
ADD differs from
ADHD because there is an
10. talks excessively
11. interrupts
to which a child is increased drug treatment:
"The single, biggest heath
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absence of hyperactivity. These
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13. loses things representation of attention
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describe as the "lights on, but If you're thinking der (AD/HD) to be an actual
nobody home" type behavior. that sounds like you as a refrigerator. You'll disease, and the drugging of
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Centers for Disease Control stimulants help to control the average total daily dose, including Peter Breggin, worry PHA is a free monthly publication.
estimated in 2004 that there behavior in many cases. There failing to support continued about the drug therapies too: We function on the sale of advertis-
were 4 million cases nationwide ing space and donations from the
is much doubt whether they in medication treatment as salu- "...we abuse our children with public.
in children 17 and under. That fact improve scholastic per- tary. The drugs can stunt drugs rather than making the
is about 1 out of every 10 chil- formance.6 And concerns about growth. After three years, med- effort to find better ways to We have nationwide distribution.
dren in public schools.4 the drugs' side effects are icated children have grown an meet their needs. In the end, we
There is no physiologi- mounting. Prescription drugs average .79 inches less than are giving out children a very We are a privately-owned business
cal process of degeneration or and have the right to refuse publica-
for ADHD are almost all stimu- non-medicated ADHD kids. bad lesson-that drugs are the tion of articles or advertising we
disease that characterizes the lants and come with "black They also suffer from more answer to emotional problems. deem inappropriate.
disorder. The diagnosis of box" warnings, meaning they muscle tics. The editors wrote: We are encouraging a genera-
ADHD is most often made after carry significant risk of serious "Response to what the study tion of youngsters to grow up Disclaimer: This newspaper is
a doctor or psychiatrist observes or even life-threatening adverse itself calls its "failure to find relying on psychiatric drugs for informational and educational
behavior and deems the patient effects. These drugs have been better outcomes associated with rather than on themselves and purposes only. The owners, staff,
has ADHD. writers and contributors of this group
linked to cardiovascular prob- continued medication treat- other human resources."14 are not doctors (unless identified as
ADHD is characterized lems and sudden death. The ment" has been troubling. We need only look around us at such in their title). Articles in this
by the "inability to marshal and more common side effects can Psychiatrists who've publicly the children today to see that newspaper are not intended to pre-
sustain attention, modulate be so devastating or unpleasant favored drug over non-drug something is clearly amiss. vent, diagnose, treat or cure disease.
activity level, and moderate that many kids just don't want therapy have downplayed the The U.S. government admits The opinions in the articles are that
impulsive actions."5 This results of the author and not necessarily
to take them. findings. And the website of that 1 in 6 children is born those of the PHA Editor or other
in behavior which is markedly Long term, drug therapy Children and Adults with today with some kind of brain PHA staff members.
inappropriate to the child's age, may turn out to have been a Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity impairment.15 By age 3, an
and often gets them in serious very costly short term fix. Disorder, a leading ADHD Attention Deficit contd pg 7 Letters to the Editor
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