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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think kids are overmedicated. Far too many kids are on medication. No one is looking at WHY? When I was a child, I don't remember a single child who had ADHD. Not one. No autism, almost no one with allergies, no one with autism.

Now there are hundreds, thousands, millions? of kids on medications for all these problems. Surely there's an underlying cause(es) that must be dealt with.

There's a huge upsurge in diabetes -- doesn't it make sense that the American diet is causing this? That one is obvious. ADHD probably has a similar cause, but no one is looking for it because we have these easy-peazy meds to give to our kids.

Medicine is for emergencies, that's my policy. Long-term problems demand that the underlying cause be identified and addressed. Medicine for ADHD is a band-aid. Address the root cause, and you'll find a solution. [/quote]

I posted a few comments earlier,

[b]and want to address a few things here,  when we were kids in school (70's) there [u]were[/u] the kids who acted up in class, the troublemakers etc, but they were just labeled as such, there were no Child study Teams to assist parents then.  Maybe some of the bad kids did have undiagnosed ADD or other learning issues and were acting up because they were bored and sick of being in the classroom.  Today at at least in the state I live in there is intervention.  
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As for ADD, if there was an easy fix or way to fix the root cause as a parent , don't you think we all would do that, there is not one, is it brain based,

Medicine is not always for emergency  situations, it is also used to maintain health or to prevent a condition from worsening.

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+1. Back in the 70s and 80s, there absolutely were kids with ADHD, they just didn't get diagnoses and ended up dropping out of high school as soon as they could. Maybe pp is cool with that being the outcome for her kid, but it's not okay for mine.[/quote]

My cousin was diagnosed as ADD at age 5 back in the early 80s. We were at the same school together and I remember my parents just talking about how his parents couldn't control his behavior, as if it was their fault. Meanwhile I think both my parents had undiagnosed attention issues as well. Anyhow, my cousin went down a very different path than I did and it definitely didn't involve anything good. Both his dad and mine passed away from uncontrolled impulses. I also know someone from high school who dated a good friend of mine and revealed he was on Ritalin. At the time with my limited high school brain I thought "wow he must have something really wrong!". Anyhow, he graduated top of the class and now has a great family and successful career.

These are just anecdotes and I am no generalizing by them, but am pointing out that these diagnoses were happening even then, but they were highly stigmatized.[/quote]

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