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buzz wrote:bluefete wrote:America is a sick society. Do you realize the pharmaceuticals control the psychology of the mind?
We have a tablet to sell you, so we must invent a sickness to sell you so you can buy our tablets.
Capitalism is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ADD is nothing more than a spoilt child looking for attention.
And of course, if you lack, dopamine, we have a tablet for you too.
congratulations
you're an idiot
April 30, 2008
There are three types of AD/HD (ADD), primarily Inattentive, Hyperactive-Impulsive, and Combined. In individuals with Hyperactive-Impulsive and the Combined forms, anti-social behavior is, unfortunately, common. Approximately 60% of these individuals maybe oppositional or defiant, many end up in trouble with the law.
These difficulties are rooted in the neurological imbalances, which cause AD/HD (which in most cases can be corrected through neurological retraining, without the use of drugs). The results of these imbalances are that these individuals tend to typically be less content and peaceful, impulsively act-out, and crave the stimulation of anti-social behaviors. Furthermore, the impulsivity causes these activities to be less carefully planned, and they are more easily caught.
Teenagers with these forms of the disorder average two arrests by the age of 18. Approximately 20% of these teenagers will be arrested for a felony, compared to only 3% of teens without the disorder. Recent data shows that as many as 50% of all teens in juvenile facilities have AD/HD, but were untreated for it, and a full 70% of men in prisons in California have AD/HD and were untreated for it as children.
Teens with these types of the disorder have 400% more traffic tickets related to speeding, than teenagers without it. Twice as many of these teenagers will run away from home (with the added increased likelihood of further bad choices, once away from home) than teens without the disorder. Arson is also often associated with AD/HD, teenagers with untreated AD/HD are three times more likely to be arrested for arson than those without the disorder.
Teenagers untreated as children for AD/HD are ten times more likely to get pregnant, or to cause a pregnancy, than those without AD/HD. Teens untreated for this disorder are
also 400% more likely to contract a sexually transmitted than teens without AD/HD.
Often AD/HD students will have difficulty with certain interactions on a regular basis: difficulty in taking turns, misinterpreting others’ remarks as overly hostile, personalizing others’ remarks actions excessively, and misreading social cues.
Correcting the Disorder
In addition to the above-mentioned problems, there are a host of other difficulties associated with AD/HD. Tragically this disorder often goes undetected, or when detected, untreated, due to parents’ fear of the unwanted significant side effects of medication, which they may think are their only treatment option.
As we mentioned earlier, the neurological imbalances, which cause all forms of this disorder, can be retrained, alleviating the condition. Neurofeedback is a drug free, safe, non-invasive and painless procedure in which the patient learns to retrain these processes. Once training is completed, no further treatment is necessary.
JWT wrote:zer0xp wrote:JWT wrote:ahh young one
the attention span is short true not due to ADD but because of bordom and technology. When i say technology look at it this way long time ago we neevr had playstation and other devices to keep us company and have us tehcology inclined. These children in the system can work a computer by age 13. can use a dvd player at age 5 and they expect the same technology from schools. The education system in this country cannot keep up with technology. So do not blame ADD blame the schools thatare not using the technology to make the lessons being taught more interested.
Days of Chalk and talk are gone!
That's not true at all... Being someone who was introduced to use a home computer at the age of 8, I've gone through my entire middle/upper school with it. This is no time and place to show off my grades, and that's not what i'm trying to do, but for the last 3 academic years, i've held above a 3.9GPA, throughout highschool and college. My highschool had nothing "fancy" to it, and nothing different than everwhere else. It was all pen, pencil, paper. With the implementation of things like TV shows in classrooms, and even videogames in physical education in the US, why would classrooms still be too "boring" for the average teenager?
Hoping for expansion on JWT's post.
Expansion here:
Keep ADD in mind you ever noticed that it is the Single sex schools like Girls schools and boys schools that do so well in exams. Why not the coed schools? Answer it is not ADD it is the bathroom to go screw that have the kids mind suffering from ADD
this is sad but it is very true
Teenagers untreated for their Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are ten times more likely to get pregnant, or cause a pregnancy, than those without ADHD.
Teenagers untreated for their Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are 400% more likely to contract a sexually transmitted disease than teens without ADHD: 16% to 4%.
we never could tell if there could be a serious link between mental health/disorders & crime in T&T
Trust Doctor Reveals Impact Of Untreated ADHD On Costs Of Crime
Article Date: 07 Nov 2010 - 0:00 PDT
Alarming statistics from a recent paper published by Dr Susan Young, Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist at Broadmoor Hospital, West London Mental Health Trust, reveal the true extent of untreated ADHD as an underlying cause of crime.
In the ground-breaking paper, Dr Young not only explores the connection between ADHD and criminal offending, but also provides insight into the treatment of ADHD offenders and how this could reduce crime. She also looks at how early intervention has the potential to divert youths away from a criminal path.
The paper was published in the October 2010 edition of 'Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics', an international monthly journal that provides expert commentary on the use of drugs and medicines in clinical neurology and neuropsychiatry. The paper, co-written by Emily Goodwin, King's College London and Institute of Psychiatry, is descriptively titled 'Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in persistent criminal offenders: the need for specialist treatment programs'.
Dr Young said, "Failure to recognize and treat ADHD offenders is likely to have serious consequences for mental health and social outcomes. The high rates of ADHD among this group, the consumption and costs of the resources they incur, mean that it is not a condition we can afford to ignore. Given that ADHD is a treatable condition with interventions available that are used to effectively treat ADHD symptoms and related behavioral problems in the general population, the enormity of this problem and its associated costs are too great to bear".
“The high rates of ADHD among this group, the consumption
and costs of the resources they incur, mean that it is not a
condition we can afford to ignore.”
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD) is a clinical syndrome with onset
in early childhood. In adulthood, the disorder
is defined by hyperactive, impulsive
and inattentive behaviors, a difficulty with
self-regulation, mood instability, disorganization
and poor behavioral controls. It
affects approximately 3–4% of UK children
[1], and a meta-analysis
of follow-up
studies has demonstrated that approximately
15% of cases continue to meet the
diagnosis at 25 years of age, with a further
50% of individuals suffering impairment
from residual symptoms [2]. Simon et al.
recently estimated the world prevalence
of ADHD in adults to average 2.5% or
higher, with approximately 1% expected
to fall in the most severe group requiring immediate treatment [3].
The size of the problem
The prevalence of ADHD in prisons has
been reported internationally and varies
greatly depending on the methodology
used and the age of the sample. Nevertheless
it is clear that, compared with population
rates, a disproportionately high number of
offenders with ADHD are being dealt with
by the UK Criminal Justice System; for
example, 45% of youth offenders [6,7] and
up to 30% of adult offenders (for a review
see [5]). Most studies have been conducted
on male offenders, however, the British
Cohort Study provided 30-year follow-up
data for 10-year-old ADHD children, and
found that both males and females with
ADHD were at risk for police contact, but
in males this was more likely to be associated
with persistent offending
If one applies a 45% rate of ADHD for male
youth offenders and 10% for females (the
latter estimated from female adult data),
this suggests that there are approximately
35,500 ADHD young offenders in the UK (approximately 5000
in prison and 30,500 in the community). The estimate is limited
to sentencing data for indictable offences in youths; the inclusion
of nonindictable offences and adults would swell the statistics
many fold.
Youth offenders are costly to manage. In the UK, 10 years ago,
the broad cost of care per annum for the ‘average’ youth offender
in the community was estimated to be GB£22,356, rising to
GB£55,640 for an offender in prison [10,11]. Those with ADHD
are likely to cost disproportionately more than their peers due to
increased service consumption in terms of earlier and repeated
contact with the Criminal Justice System and greater frequency
and severity of institutional aggression. Given that ADHD is a
treatable condition with interventions available that are used to
effectively treat ADHD symptoms and related behavioral problems
in the general population, the enormity of this problem and
its associated costs are too great to bear.
“One study found that ADHD offenders accounted
for eight-times more aggressive incidents than
other prisoners.”
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