4. ADHD is caused by?

Question

a. A Lack of discipline
b. Heredity (genes)
c. Toxins in the environment
d. The cause is still unknown

Note: if you look at my other questions you will find similar easy survey questions. I'd be appreciative if those who answer this one would follow up and answer some of the others.

Answer 1

B and C

mostly toxins in the intra-uterine environment, I believe....
like mothers who smoke heavily throughout their pregnancy!

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here's the latest:
9/21/06 -- Prenatal exposure to tobacco and environmental lead was linked to ADHD, in a new study published by the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives this week.
Though the link between ADHD and childhood toxin exposure is not new, the study’s results offer a provocative look at the risk factors associated with certain environmental exposures—including tobacco.

The study found that the likelihood of ADHD was 2.5 times higher in children exposed to tobacco before birth than those who weren’t. Prenatal tobacco exposure might account for 270,000 cases of ADHD in the United States, the study says.

Answer 2

Unknown, but Genes seems to be the current guess: See my last answer.
A: is the pre-acknowledged answer. Children were diagnosed as "Mildly Mentally Retarded" and were often beaten, electroshocked and other tortures to get them to become "disciplined".
B: See my previous answer
C: Sugar can really add to the hyperactivity as well as red die #5 etc. A diet can be considered "toxic".
D: This is the truest answer to date.

Answer 3

d.

That is of course you believe the syndrome exists at all. Many Dr. believe it isn't a syndrome at all but rather just a name given to very active children.

I tend to agree with the naysayers.

Answer 4

Pharmaceutical companies and psychiatrist have gone to bed to create one the biggest profit centers in the history of legal drugs.

Ask yourself this question and really think about the answer. What kind of society drugs its’ children to force their compliance with the system? Drugging has become a tool of conformity and control.

The DEA found that methylphenidate had nearly identical effects on humans as amphetamines and cocaine.

This powerful stimulant, that has the highest abuse potential and dependence profile of all drugs that have medical usefulness, is prescribed mostly to children. By the mid nineties, methylphenidate sales leveled off at 11 million prescriptions per year. Around that time the sales of other amphetamines (primarily Adderall, used for treatment ADD and ADHD) increased from 1.3 million prescriptions in 1996 to 6 million prescriptions by 2000. According to United Nations data the United States of America consumes 85% of all methylphenidate production. Of this 85%, 80% is prescribed to children. Apparently, ADD and ADHD are not common afflictions in other parts of the world.

In 1985, 500,000 American kids were diagnosed with ADHD. Today, between over 7 million children in the United States are labeled with this disorder.

What happened in the nine years between 1991 and 2000? In 1991, the United States Department of Education made children with ADD and ADHD eligible for special education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Act. In 1991, kids diagnosed with ADHD or ADD became eligible and entitled to extra government funding for their schools. School districts across America now had a financial incentive to label kids with ADD and ADHD.

It is pretty clear that we have become a society that drugs its’ children for financial gain and to force compliance with the system. Schools have a financial incentive, but why would parents drug their kids? Some parents who resist are threatened by schools and social workers. They are told refusing to medicate their kids is akin to abuse.

Many parents cooperate in the drugging of their children, because if their kids have a “disease”, it is not the parent’s fault. Behavior problems are the parent’s fault, while a disease is out of their control. Parents are labeling their kids, so they do not have to take the responsibility for their child’s behavior. This behavior may be nothing more than rebellion to conformity, but nonetheless embarrassing to the parents. Support groups for parents further these beliefs. Not surprisingly, groups like CHADD, Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, are funded by Ciba/Novartis, maker of Ritalin.

Worse yet, they are teaching these kids that they are not responsible for their behavior either. If they misbehave, it is the disease in control. Then they drug the kid and credit the medication for his good behavior. These drugged kids become nothing but shells of human beings, not responsible for themselves and addicted to powerful drugs.

ADD is not even a real disease. According to Merriam- Webster’s Dictionary, ADD is a syndrome of disordered learning and disruptive behavior that is not caused by any serious underlying physical or mental disorder and that has several subtypes characterized primarily by inattentiveness or primarily by hyperactivity and impulsive behavior or by the significant expression of both. There are no physical or chemical abnormalities conclusively associated with ADHD.

Diagnosis of ADD comes from observation of the subject. How can you diagnosis a mental disorder, like attention deficit, by observation of physical activity? The people who diagnose children do not have any idea of the mental functioning of the subject’s brain. By the syndrome’s name it implies that the subject can not keep his attention focused, he has lack of attention. You could possibly say a person’s attention was not on a certain subject, but that does not mean his attention wasn’t totally focused on something else.

Some neurologists believe ADD is a sham. Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D., a Chief of Neurology (Board Certified) Fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Neurology said, “In numbers unmatched in any part of the world, U.S. school children are diagnosed and drugged in a quid pro quo association between education and for-profit psychiatry and psychology. Labeled ‘brain-diseased’, the schools have an excuse for the rampant illiteracy and unpreparedness, cause enough for the mounting unhappiness and failure of the children, while psychiatry/psychology gains lifetime patients….. Parents, wake up! Do you really believe that your child, seemingly normal until eight (the average age of diagnosis) has a ‘brain disease’ due to a ‘chemical imbalance of the brain’, diagnosed by a teacher? I don't think so. .... As a child neurologist for 35 years, I have authored original descriptions of real diseases characterized by objective abnormalities. Witnessing the burgeoning numbers of school children said to have A.D.D. and made to take brain-altering drugs, I have found I can validate none of it.”

Over 7 million little “square peg” children line up every morning to swallow down powerful drugs. ADD and ADHD would be better labeled PDD, Parental Deficit Disorder.

Answer 5

nearly all mental illnesses are truly inherited imbalances in brain chemistry, stem cell research could help put all these diseases out of business one day by replacing defective genes in unborn babies.

Answer 6

e. Stupid child care officials who want to label everything, so people can feel more medically justified in their behavior.

When I was a kid, ADHD was called, Being a little sh*t, and it was cured by a swift kick in the a$$!!

Answer 7

http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2002/nimh-08.htm

Answer 8

D. They still don't know...my money is on genetics though.

Answer 9

d

Answer 10

you mean D.) all of the above right?