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Mar 08, 2012, 02:15 PM
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"In the United States, 5% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France the percentage of kids diagnosed and medicated for ADHD is only .05%."
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...dont-have-adhd
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Mar 08, 2012, 03:54 PM
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Someone on PC posted the actual study. It was a comparison of the diagnosis criterion between France and the US. They also use the ICD-9/10 in conjunction with the french manual..
http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=215018 I would DEF read this. It is informative and not a difficult read. (about 22? pages)
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Mar 09, 2012, 10:53 AM
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Yes, French kids have ADHD, they just have a heck of a time getting meds for it from their doctors; there's a whole group of parents/teachers, etc. that are lobbying the powers that be to change things there. However, we have too-many to their perceived not-as-many.
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Mar 09, 2012, 11:01 AM
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well, this was posted right here at psychcentral
http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/03...ory/35780.html so maybe the French got it right(er)?
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Mar 09, 2012, 11:59 AM
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Slightly different problem I think, Venus, (small Ritalin helps memory but larger dose does not but the larger dose is to help the hyperactivity) and I wonder how they can experiment on monkeys who don't have a "problem" to begin with? There have been known brain scans of people with ADD that have "different" looking brains. A person without ADHD would not respond to drugs the same as one with and I can't imagine how we'd diagnose a monkey with ADHD?
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Mar 10, 2012, 08:59 PM
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Unfortunately the French has not accepted neuropsychiatric conditions as a whole. Not only is it common to reject the idea ADHD is neurological, but they also treat autism as "we" did in the 70s. They think it is all mommy issues and could be cured by fixing the family. This is so totally backwards. I feel for everyone in France that don't get the right attitudes towards their issues.
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Mar 10, 2012, 09:04 PM
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