JANE KELLEY was thinking about Ad(h)d Children and keyed into 
cyberspace:
JK>MP>JK{ By slugging a kid down with drugs, he or she can be made to
JK>MP>JK{ appear to conform and thus is allowed to remain in school.
JK>MP>Not correct. No child may be forced from school for the parents
JK>MP>refusal to use medications. There have been three cases on this.
JK>MP>All of the federal courts have said the same thing.
JK>The kid that takes the drugs will not appear to be deviant.  Some of
JK>the kids whose parents are smart enough to understand that drugs
JK>damage an already unadequate immune/enzyme system will not be little
JK>angels.  The kids who have used illegal drugs then quit with
JK>treatment are not allowed back into the schools around here.  They
JK>either go without, home school, or go to an alternative school.
JK>Which is why we have the high percentage of older teens not in any
JK>school system in this county. 
You are being tangential and, still have no insight. 
JK>MP>JK{ My daughter has enough medical knowledge and also access to
JK>the best MP>JK{ doctors around this area as an x-ray tech who does
JK>C.A.T. scans. MP>JK{ The child is not going to be medicated for the
JK>convenience of some MP>JK{ poor teacher.
JK>MP>It is for the betterment of the child. If you want me to explain
JK>MP>that to you, then I will. Do you have an open mind?
JK>Let me explain this to you......you haven't seen the child.  You
JK>aren't the experts in mental illness that have seen this child,
JK>including one psychologist, at Good Samaritan Mental Health in
JK>Puyallup.  And you havnen't watched that same child crave whatever
JK>sweets are in the home which are considerable.
Sounds like a typical kid. 
JK>I found http://www.doubleclicked.com/shedding light.html yesterday,
JK>downloaded something called "Shedding Light: Childhood Behavior &
JK>Learning Problems".  There were ten statements by ten experts on
JK>this. The first was from someone with LCSW-C behind the name
JK>advocating Ritalin, listed as a family systems psychoterapist.  No
JK>indication here of any hard science courses along with whatever else
JK>was taken. 
Jane, you always use the adjective "hard". Hard science, hard chairs. 
Hard this and hard that. So, why not take two cushions and call me in 
the morning?
JK>The second was by Dr. Richard Layton, allergy and pediatric medicine.
JK>He has been breaking away from the conventional pediatrics and has
JK>been using alternative methods in his practice.  He puts a lot of
JK>emphasis on food allergies and remedial diets.  His statement:  "I
JK>believe that besides hypersensitivities to foods, molds, pollens,
JK>chemicals and additives, other underlying causes include antibiotics,
JK>chemical pollution, pesticide spraying of foods, poor nutrition and
JK>nutritional deficiencies."  He has been practicing medicine for 30
JK>years. 
JK>Further:  "I strongly believe that the incidence of learning
JK>disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity has
JK>markedly increased in recent years.  We also cannot believe that we
JK>can ignore the stressful time we are presently living in when it is
JK>difficult for children to be children with the crime, drug abuse and
JK>chaos of the 1990s."
Bullshit. The incidence of ADHD has "increased" over the passed ten 
years because there is a more concerted effort to identify it. The 
number of girls who have it has also dramatically increased because we 
are more aware that girls have it, too. 
Your "expert" has no facts to back him up. If he was anymore backed up, 
a good dose of colloidal minerals would help.
JK>So again if children are born with a lousy set of enzymes, a lousy
JK>set of neurotransmitters, then explain to me in detail how giving
JK>them a drug or drugs that stresses out their brain and body chemistry
JK>further is going to help them grow up into normal adults?
You did not understand this the last time I told you, so, why should I 
explain it all over again. Suffice it to say that your fundamental ideas 
are wrong. MPH stimulates an area of the brain that is underworking and 
with the medication, makes everything work in harmony. 
                   ===>Mark Probert<===
             watch here for new email address....
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