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Jan, can you answer this?

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  1. "Hawki63" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Subject: Re: Severity of ADHD Increases Risk Of Drug Use
    From: [email hidden] (Jan)
    Date: 9/17/2003 7:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time
    Message-id: <[email hidden]>

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    Severity of ADHD in children increases risk of drug use in adolescence

    from one of your many posts..

    you say no where does it say "untreated" have the "increased risk of drug
    use..addiction,,etc"

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    ADHD Raises Risk of Substance Abuse
    Mon Aug 18, 7:14 PM ET

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    Recent studies have
    strongly suggested that Ritalin (news - web sites) and other drugs not


    only

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    improve symptoms of ADHD but also reduce the risk for substance abuse.

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    One study found that Ritalin actually reduced substance abuse by a factor


    of

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    six. The current study "really speaks of the need for parents to


    intervene

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    for
    their kids," Adesman says. "The treatment of ADHD with medication has


    both

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    short-term benefits in terms of academics and attention, but

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    also long-term
    benefits in terms of prevention or minimizing later risks of drug,
    cigarettes,

    hmmm....what is thee opposite of "treated"

    hmmm..."untreated"

    one (well most of us with powers of logic and reasoning) can extrapolate


    that

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    these voluminous articles you post over and over again...refer to the
    "untreated"

    doesn't have to use the word...just read the articles....giving meds


    REDUCES

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    the risk of drug use by a factor of six

    what part of that logic escapes you???

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