Youth Leadership teleconference/increase in drug usage for ADHD

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YOUTH LEADERSHIP:

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July 7, 2004

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Mills is a nationally recognized youth leader. Currently she

works as the Systems Change Advocate for the Access Center of San Diego, Inc

and part time as a youth consultant for the KASA (Kids as Self Advocates)

Project. Since 1997 she has been a volunteer staff member of the Youth

Leadership Forum and for the past three years she has been the first youth

to facilitate the entire weeklong event. has been a guest

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Award finalists, but was also appointed by the California Governor, Grey

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Living Council. served one year as the Chair of the Youth Advisory

Council for the National Council on Disability. Most recently,

was elected Chair of the State Independent Living Center. was

born with a disability, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, and has been advocating for

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fractures and has gone through over a dozen operations. Her area of

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Marissa : As the Education Policy Coordinator at Access Living of

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FYI

Awak(e)A-dvocacy

A small input-My Opinion - There is NO ONE WAY to treat ADD/ADHD

I personally think diagnosing/Medicating at 2 to 5 yrs of age is a dangerous

practice.

The Child Development Clinic in VA, would not diagnose my son until he was 5

yrs & 9 months of age, although they had started evaluateing [some] at age 4,

they COULD Not fully evauate at that age.

Mike Savory

The Associated Press

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4993606/

Article:

TRENTON, N.J. - As more children pop pills for attention deficit and other

behavior disorders, new figures show spending on those drugs has for the first

time edged out the cost of antibiotics and asthma medications for kids.

A 49 percent rise in the use of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

drugs by children under 5 ? in the last three years contributed to a 23 percent

increase in usage for all children, according to an annual analysis of drug use

trends by Medco Health Solutions Inc.

(Aren't kids under 5 supposed to have short attention spans and be very

active, as in the " terrible twos " ?)

“Behavioral medicines have eclipsed the other categories this year,†said

Dr. Epstein, Medco’s chief medical officer. “It certainly reflects

the

concern of parents that their children do as well as they can.â€

Antibiotics still top the list of the most commonly used children’s drugs,

but parents are paying more for behavioral drugs, such as stimulants or

antidepressants, according to the analysis of drug use among 300,000 children

under

19.

Medco, the nation’s largest prescription benefit manager, was to release the

data culled from its customers’ usage on Monday.

More cash for costlier medicine The most startling change was a 369 percent

increase in spending on attention deficit drugs for children under five. TO

REPEAT, (Aren't kids under 5 supposed to have short attention spans and be very

active, as in the " terrible twos " ?)

That’s in part because of the popularity of newer, long-acting medicines

under patent, compared with

twice-a-day Ritalin and generic versions available for years.

But the use of other behavioral drugs also jumped in the last three years.

Antidepressant use rose 21 percent and drugs for autism and other conduct

disorders jumped 71 percent, compared to a 4.3 percent rise in antibiotics.

Epstein said 17 percent of total drug spending last year for the group of

children under 19 was for behavioral medicines, compared with 16 percent each

for

antibiotics and asthma drugs, 11 percent for skin conditions and 6 percent

for allergy medicines.

Use of such behavior medicines has been controversial, with some experts

questioning whether parents and school officials are too eager to medicate

disruptive children.

Some experts say no.

“It’s not necessarily a bad thing that these medicines are being used

more,â€

said Dr. McGough, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the

UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute.

McGough said kids on attention deficit drugs tend to avoid substance abuse

and other problems and do better in school.

However, McGough said increasing adolescent use of antidepressants is a

concern, because there’s little proof they work in young people and evidence

they

may increase suicidal tendencies.

For Full Article

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4993606/