BM> My qualifications to make any statements about addictions is not the
BM> issue.  The issue is your qualifications to come into this conference
BM> and pontificate about a causal effect between alcoholism and ADD/ADHD
BM> without offering a single shred of evidence to back up your claims;
Got several filing cabinets full of paper plus several books.  Since you
have no qualifications at all, you lack the ability to understand even
the basics of addiction and what goes on in families with genetic
alcoholism.  I can assure you that a certain amount of mild neurological
problems such as dyslexia are also present.  Should be invent a whole
new disease for each symptom presented as we are now doing or should we
insist that the root problem of the body chemistry be located and
treated first?
There is no way in hell that any of the problems stemming from the
genetic alcoholism are going to disappear.  They can, however, be made
much worse by those who do not know how to diagnose and treat the
children born into these families, be the presenting symptom one of
hyperactivity or of a problem with urination.
BM> to tell the participants here that medications that have been proven
BM> by controlled study after controlled study to be effective in the
BM> treatment of ADD/ADHD are dangerous and all the other poppycock you
BM> spout;
I will repeat this again, very slowly.  The children I am aiming at are
those from families with alcoholism and in which the Ritalin is not
working.
And since you do not have in front of you when you type any of the work
by Kenneth Blum, Jeffery Rosencrans, Terry Neher, James Milam, or any of
the others in the field of chemical addiction then I suggest you either
find a source of information about this or stop trying to debate with
me.
I am light years ahead of where you are now and will remain so until I
die.   the children I am talking about need diagnosis and treatment
first by someone who can assess the family risk of alcoholism and other
addiction.  To find out if any of the symptoms the kids are presenting
with are linked to that rather than any of the disease to be found in
the DSM IV or any other text book on mental health that is not
predicated on a disease concept of mental illness.
Those who are treating mental health are swinging one way, those who are
treating mental illness, such as the folks at Stanford and other places
where hard scientific research is going on, another.  The first group
are now regarded as modern day witch doctors, sometimes scary, but not
all that effective in the end.  The other group, those who can prattle
on about brain chemistry and know what a synpase is, are becoming more
and more effective every day.
Parents have the right to know that the mental health folks are now just
beginning to take the same kind of lectures that my field has been going
to for years.
 * SLMR 2.1a * We all live in a yellow subroutine.
                
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