I knew it was coming--Drugging pre-schoolers

In article .com,
Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A. wrote:

Jan Drew wrote:
http://toronto.fashion-monitor.com/n...02304ADHD-Drug

ADHD Drug Safe and Effective for Pre-Schoolers

Excerpts:

Investigators warn, however, that 3- to 5-year-olds with ADHD appear more
sensitive to the drug's side effects, which include irritability, insomnia
and weight loss, than are older children with ADHD and require closer
monitoring.

Children who took the drug also experienced somewhat slower growth rates.

Methylphenidate is the most widely prescribed drug for the treatment of ADHD
in children but is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
for use in children younger than 6.

About 11 percent of those enrolled in the ADHD study experienced side
effects severe enough to drop out. These included weight loss, anxiety, skin
picking, mood disturbances and insomnia.

More than 4.4 million children in the United States have ADHD, according to
estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This is sad : The Proby-Wright-Ann crowd are dancing in the streets
about this mass-drugging of our most vulnerable population. Their
goal: domestic Armageddon; the total destruction of the USA.

The irony of the foregoing coming from a self-styled "Sir Arthur," who
is actually a long-time netfraud who has also gone by "Dr Richard
X. Frager" and other names, is just overwhelming.

You're a total fruitcake, Artie, or whatever your real name is.
Between the 9/11 conspiracy stuff and the idea that other here are
seeking "the total destruction of the USA," you're revealing your own
craziness far better than anyone else could ever do.

Or maybe you don't believe any of it and you just have a really weird
sense of humor, but in either case, your existence is of absolutely no
value.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"George Bush is a gruesome boob." -- Bill Maher

Jan Drew wrote:
http://toronto.fashion-monitor.com/n...02304ADHD-Drug

ADHD Drug Safe and Effective for Pre-Schoolers

Excerpts:

Investigators warn, however, that 3- to 5-year-olds with ADHD appear more
sensitive to the drug's side effects, which include irritability, insomnia
and weight loss, than are older children with ADHD and require closer
monitoring.

Children who took the drug also experienced somewhat slower growth rates.

Methylphenidate is the most widely prescribed drug for the treatment of ADHD
in children but is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
for use in children younger than 6.

About 11 percent of those enrolled in the ADHD study experienced side
effects severe enough to drop out. These included weight loss, anxiety, skin
picking, mood disturbances and insomnia.

More than 4.4 million children in the United States have ADHD, according to
estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A study focusing on the role of a important
brain chemical sheds new light on why victims of childhood abuse may
themselves become abusers as adults, and points to a possible remedy,
researchers said on Thursday.

They looked at levels of serotonin -- a chemical that transmits
impulses in the brain -- in rhesus monkeys, but has implications for
understanding child abuse in people because of biological similarities
in humans and monkeys, they said.

When baby monkeys in the study experienced high amounts of abuse and
rejection from their mother in the month after birth, their brains
often produced less serotonin. Low levels of serotonin are linked to
anxiety, depression and aggression in monkeys and people. ...

.... Experts long have known that suffering childhood abuse raises the
probability a person will become an abusive parent, and have tried to
find the reason -- for example, repeating behavior learned early in
life or, alternatively, long-term changes in brain processes governing
emotions.

"Our results suggest that the system is affected by early trauma, early
experience, and that these long-term changes in the brain might
contribute to the occurrence of abusive parenting in adulthood,"
University of Chicago researcher Dario Maestripieri said in an
interview.

Maestripieri, lead author of the study in the journal Behavioral
Neuroscience, said if research confirms that the same changes in brain
development also occur in humans, then there could be the potential for
intervention using drugs.

Maestripieri said drugs that raise brain serotonin levels might lower
the chances an abused child becomes an abusive parent. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061107/sc_nm/childabuse_dc