Is this to blame for the rise of ADD/ADHD?

Question

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Answer 1

NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published September 28 2006
ADHD drug push targets entire families; children and parents both on amphetamines
by Jessica Fraser

(NewsTarget) A new study by prescription benefit manager Medco Health Solutions Inc. found that parents of children taking drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are nine times more likely to also use the drugs than other parents.
The study -- which was based on the number of ADHD prescription claims filed in 2005 for more than 107,000 children aged 5 to 19, and their parents -- found that in half the cases in which a parent and child both started taking ADHD drugs, the parent did so first.

Dr. Thomas E. Brown, associate director of the Yale Clinic for Attention and Related Disorders, says that normally children start taking the drugs first, followed by the parents.

The study also found that in 60 percent of cases, mothers were taking the drugs more than fathers in households where a parent and a child both started taking the drugs for the first time, though the disorder is two to three times more common in men than women. Dr. Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park, NY, claims more women are taking the drugs now because they are being examined for attention deficit problems more.

Seven percent of children taking ADHD drugs also had a parent using the drugs, the study found. The average age parents started taking ADHD drugs was 43, and the average age for kids was 13. Medco did a study last year that found that between 2000 and 2004, ADHD drug use rose twice as fast among adults than children, and growth rates were much higher for women than men.

Brown claims recent increases in use of the drugs are because parents are less likely to be put off by heavily publicized negative side effects such as heart trouble, insomnia and nervous tics if they see the medication work. Critics of the drugs -- which often belong to the amphetamine family -- say shady direct-to-consumer drug advertisements are largely to blame for the idea that ADHD is an inherited, family disorder.

"That the ADHD drug pushing industry is now targeting entire families with chemical treatment for a fictitious disease is an outrage," says Mike Adams, a critic of overmedicating children. "They claim this so-called disease runs in families, and yet they cannot produce a single shred of evidence from any medical test showing that the condition is really a disease at all."

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

I don't think anybody has been able to prove that sugar, lack of exercise or TV have anything to do with true ADHD. A :'sugar high' might look like Hyperactivity but I don't think it lasts as long. I believe ADHD is a real disorder, but I think it gets overdiagnosed. This is just my opinion, but I think there's something to it. I think the doctors that work for the school systems probably aren't paid as much as other doctors, so they probably don't get the best doctors to work for them. The teachers see kids who act up, and they report it to the doctor. The doctor doesn't really care, and doesn't want to take the time to really examine the kid, so he or she takes the teacher's word for it and prescribes medication for ADHD. Maybe the kid really has it, and maybe not. Also, I think a lot of parents are too busy these days and they don't always give their children the attention they should have--so the kids start acting out in school because it's a way to get attention.

Answer 4

tis not only boys who get ADHD / ADD cuz im a girl and i have ADHD since like forever and its not somethign they just invented cuz they needed to give a pill to somone it is real and it eint easy to deal with in school . so it eint only boys who get that

Answer 5

What started this is a drug company made a pill and needed something to treat with it. Bingo, ADD/ADHD was invented. Mostly it is just boys being boys.

Answer 6

"They do not get very much exercise and they most likely eat a lot of sugar"-- add this to kids dumped at daycare for 10 hours a day, divorced parents shuffling children between homes, step-kids, lovers and dating.. and you get a new generation of drug addicts.