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ADHD News Articles
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Here is your weekly edition of your ADHD News Articles from the ADHD Information Library at http://newideas.net. Visit us for the latest news and insights on parenting and teaching those with ADHD.
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Teen Suicide Rates Increase as Prescriptions Decrease
A lot of teenagers, and even children, are prescribed antidepressants, somewhere from 1% to 1.5% of the population. At one point studies estimated that as many as 1.66% of children or adolescents were prescribed antidepressant medication, but after the FDA required a "black box" warning label for the medications in 2005, the prescription rate has dropped. The warning label states that the use of antidepressants among children and teenagers is associate with an increased risk of suicial thoughts, and suicial behaviors. So physicians have backed off of prescribing the medications. However, the estimated suicide rate among American adolescents is about 16%.
So, as a result of fewer depressed teenagers receiving antidepressant treatment, the suicide rate among teenagers has gone up. See Hamilton B, et.al., Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2005. Pediatrics. Also see Greenhouse, J., et.al., Generalizing from Clinical Trial Data: A Case Study. The Risk of Suicidality Among Pediatric Antidepressant Users. Carnegie Mellon University. Follow along with me here:
1. Antidepressants can increase suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children and adolescents who were not having any, or many, suicidal thoughts or behaviors, according to a study of 4,600 children and teens (and, by the way, no one in this group of 4,600 committed suicide). This was the basis of the FDA's black box warning label.
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| New ADHD Videos Online
We are doing our best to keep up with the latest technologies, but remember, we are clinicians not media savy web guys. So we are in the process of producing brief information videos on various ADHD related topics for parents and teachers. We hope to be able to product from five to ten videos each month, in our "spare" time.
The first five videos are now online at the ADHD Information Library. See what you think. Here are the topics:
Take a look at them, we hope that they will be at least somewhat helpful. And give us your feedback so that the next generation of videos can be even better.
Thanks,
Doug Cowan, Psy.D.
Clinical Editor - ADHD Information Library
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| Articles on Tourette Syndrome
A defining criterion of Tourette is symptoms- involuntary tics-that start between age 2 and age 15. Anyone who has Tourette first got it as a child, probably during school, when peers can be ruthless to anyone out of the mainstream. Recent studies show that the greatest frequency and severity of tics occurs for most children around middle school. It's a terrible time to be twitching and barking.
Yet the roughly 1 percent of students who have Tourette syndrome are, aside from their tics, no different than other students. The condition has no impact on intelligence or athletic ability. Even tics themselves are not unique; some 20 to 25 percent of children develop a physical tic or tics during their school years that, in most cases, go away. When the symptoms last more than a year, and audible tics join the physical ones, it's probably Tourette syndrome-TS to the cognoscenti.
READ COMPLETE ARTICLES
Tourette Syndrome No Laughing Matter by E.H. Santiago in the Long Island Press. Used by permission.
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