Learned that you had left out the :www" in the address for NIMH which made it 
necessary to do a net search.
Found article and I quote:  "Attention lapses caused by petit mal seizures 
can be confused with ADHD".  Exactly what I have been complaining about.
Then: "Restricted diet helps those with food allergies" in spite of your 
denial about this  factor.
Also found a statement that ADHD is linked to both the use of alcohol and of 
cocaine during pregnancy.  As this is usually by addicts, as a chemical 
dependency counselor, I object vigorously to the prescription of any drug for 
any human by anyone unless addiction in the immediate family is factored into 
the history!  It is all too evident to me that this is not being done.
And, there is no information available from DSHS concerning the parents of my 
adopted grand daughter as far as their health problems or their genetic 
inheritance is concerned!  I consider this to be an ethical and moral 
question which should be addressed by our legistlators and the control of the 
children in the state's care taken away from the social workers and given 
over to the medical and nursing professions instead!
I also failed to find any mention of school teachers, school counselors and 
school administrators among those who were considered qualified to diagnose 
ADHD.  Those listed were all medical doctors with specialties.
And I found this:  "Another debate is whether Ritalin and other stimulant 
drugs are prescribed unnecessarily for too many children.....critics argue 
that many children who do not have a true attention disorder are medicated as 
a way to control their disruptive behaviors."
That is something I have also stated which you object to, yet it is in the 
article that you recommended I read.
I found the information concerning the measured level of glucose found in the 
P.E.T. scans.  What was not there was any information about any other 
conditions in which this is also true.
How many samples were positive? Since the article mentions the use of cocaine 
and alcohol by mothers during pregnancy, how many of the children tested or 
the adults either were screened for chemical dependency and how many were 
also screened for chemical dependency in their immediate families?
I failed to find any information at all concerning this in the article, which 
I have downloaded to read through again.
Considering the indisputable fact that the research on alcoholism and fetal 
alcohol syndrome and the damage done by cocaine and heroin to children has 
been documented for some time in several nations, is ADHD merely one form of 
genetic mutation of alcoholism?
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