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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (625)	10/4/2000 10:18:06 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1719

psychotropic drugs. This article, if not the hearing, is a distortion of programs involving psychotropic drugs. My active son was tested for ADD and as a test took Ritalin for a couple of months. During this time I familarized myself with the field pretty well. Under the program, a family could receive more than $450 per month for each child diagnosed with a disorder. This is about the only federal involvement, and is misleading. Any money involved goes for the drugs so it is not an incentive for poor people to get their kids diagnosed so they can spend the money on crack. (Although there are a significant number of people - not only poor - who get Ritalin for their kids and then take it themselves) At any rate, there is no cash advantage to the program. Here in Texas, one of the biggest factors in psychotropic drug use is the testing and accountability systems promoted by Governor Bush. The schools can exclude test scores from low performing students who are under treatment for ADD or ADHD and so have a big incentive to drug as many low scoring kids as they can. Finally, when properly diagnosed and administered these drugs do work. A good friends active, distracted daughter took Ritalin and it did wonders. She became a charming happy student with better performance. (It was that example which encouraged us to try, but we did not get the same results). TP Post finally - ADD & ADHD testing is a joke. It consists of a questionaire to the teacher and parents which boils down to 1) Is your kid active? 2) Do you want to try drugs?