Mordwyn.45
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From today's CNNI health section:
CHICAGO (AP) -- When he was a toddler, Heath Barker was nicknamed "the red tornado" for his auburn hair and his penchant for tearing things up and jumping off the furniture. When he was just 4, he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and prescribed Ritalin.
A study of more than 200,000 preschool-age children shows this was no isolated case.
The number of 2- to 4-year-olds on psychiatric drugs including Ritalin and anti-depressants like Prozac soared 50 percent between 1991 and 1995, researchers reported in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Experts said they are troubled by the findings, because the effects of such drugs in children so young are largely unknown. Some doctors worry that such powerful drugs could be dangerous for children's development.
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And to think we wonder why some children go out of controll and shoot up their schools..:
But wait I forgot, it's realy the evil mind controll rays that firearms use. They force the kids to do their bidding.......
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TANSTAAFL- R.A. Heinlen
"Molon Labe"- Leonidas to Xerxes at Thermopile
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CHICAGO (AP) -- When he was a toddler, Heath Barker was nicknamed "the red tornado" for his auburn hair and his penchant for tearing things up and jumping off the furniture. When he was just 4, he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and prescribed Ritalin.
A study of more than 200,000 preschool-age children shows this was no isolated case.
The number of 2- to 4-year-olds on psychiatric drugs including Ritalin and anti-depressants like Prozac soared 50 percent between 1991 and 1995, researchers reported in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Experts said they are troubled by the findings, because the effects of such drugs in children so young are largely unknown. Some doctors worry that such powerful drugs could be dangerous for children's development.
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And to think we wonder why some children go out of controll and shoot up their schools..:
But wait I forgot, it's realy the evil mind controll rays that firearms use. They force the kids to do their bidding.......
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TANSTAAFL- R.A. Heinlen
"Molon Labe"- Leonidas to Xerxes at Thermopile
[This message has been edited by Mordwyn.45 (edited February 22, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by Mordwyn.45 (edited February 23, 2000).]