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[EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes: attention deficit/hyperactivity, Symptoms include questioning authority and staring out the window when the teacher is boring you. We're not seeing an increase in mental illness here. We're seeing an increase in social control. Children who don't conform are being put in chemical straight jackets. A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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"The researchers found that problems such as attention deficit disorder, depression and learning disabilities have more than doubled from 1979 to 1996." Kids' Behavioral Problems Said Soar By LINDSEY TANNER .c The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - New research suggests that the number of U.S. youngsters with emotional and behavioral problems soared in the past two decades, in part because of more poor and single-parent households. The findings, echoing other recent studies, are based on surveys of pediatricians on more than 21,000 patients. The researchers said it is not a case of doctors getting better at recognizing and diagnosing emotional and behavioral problems. Instead, they said there is a real increase in such problems among youngsters. The researchers found that problems such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, depression and learning disabilities more than doubled from 1979 to 1996. Such conditions were identified in 6.8 percent of all doctor visits in 1979 and in 18.7 percent of visits in 1996. Differences in doctor training in identifying such problems did not account for the increases, said Dr. Kelly Kelleher of the University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the study's lead author. In fact, the highest identification rates were for doctors who trained in the 1970s and before. The findings suggest instead that most of the change was due to ``an increase in problems and the kinds of patients they're seeing,'' said Kelleher, whose study appears in the June issue of the journal Pediatrics. The changes were associated with increases in the proportions of single-parent families and Medicaid enrollment from 1979 to 1996, the researchers said. Fifteen percent of patients in the 1979 study lived in single-parent homes, compared with 22 percent in the 1996 study. Just 6 percent of the earlier patients were on Medicaid, compared with 18 percent of the 1996 patients. However, pediatricians are geared primarily to deal with ``acute'' problems in which ``children come in, the doctor gives them medicine, the children go away,'' Kelleher said. Doctors will be ineffective unless the system is restructured to allow pediatricians to act more like mental-health professionals and spend more time with chronic ailments, he said. The authors examined data from a 1979 survey of 30 Rochester, N.Y.-area pediatricians, and compared the results with 1996 data from a government-funded study of 395 pediatricians nationwide. A total of 21,065 patients ages 4 to 15 were involved. The largest changes were in attention deficit/hyperactivity, which increased from 1.4 percent to 9.2 percent, and emotional problems such as anxiety and depression, which increased from a negligible amount to 3.6 percent. John Lavigne, chief psychologist at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, said that despite the researchers' findings, some of the increase can probably be attributed to pediatricians getting better at recognizing the problems. The study ``means that doctors before must have been underestimating the problem,'' Lavigne said. ``Chances are they've increased their ability to recognize them.''
Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Ritalin Market Soars
In a message dated 6/5/00 9:47:19 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The authors examined data from a 1979 survey of 30 Rochester, N.Y.-area pediatricians, and compared the results with 1996 data from a government-funded study of 395 pediatricians nationwide. A total of 21,065 patients ages 4 to 15 were involved. I can't imagine how one can properly statistically correct for such varied data populations. Comparing Rochester to Rochester would work, but comparing 30 Rochester pediatricians' data to 395 pediatricians' data nationwide? Harumph. And this is what people call "science." The conclusions feed into the propaganda that tries to convince us that this generation's young people are somehow "different" than previous generations'. Because these young people are "different" we can justify drugging them into a stupor, trying them as adults, randomly searching them at school, forcing them to pee in cups at tender ages. Makes me sick. Samantha A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html A HREF="http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
