Why has there been a 66% rise in the number of ADHD diagnoses?
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Why has there been a 66% rise in the number of ADHD diagnoses?
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Psychcentral.com have featured a new study which will be published in the Academic Pediatrics , which states that ADHD diagnoses are up by 66% since 2000. Is this an American phenomenon or is it a gl
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Why has there been a 66% rise in the number of ADHD diagnoses?
posted at 21/3/2012 10:37 AM GMT
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Psychcentral.com have featured a new study which will be published in the Academic Pediatrics, which states that ADHD diagnoses are up by 66% since 2000. Is this an American phenomenon or is it a global trend? Does the increase in diagnoses for ADHD show an increase in awareness for ADHD? Or is this an overdiagnosis of ADHD? http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/03/20/adhd-diagnoses-up-66-percent-since-2000/36229.html |
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Re: Why has there been a 66% rise in the number of ADHD diagnoses?
posted at 21/3/2012 1:55 PM GMT
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Increased awareness or over-diagnosis - perhaps bit of both as well as changing diagnostic criteria and our over-whelming compulsion as human beings to label everything and create somewhat artificial "norms", attaching a diganosis to anyone who deviates from these norms. My own gut feeling is that, like autism, everyone is on an ADHD spectrum somewhere and it's hard to know whether we are perhaps too quick to label people because they are suffering themselves or because they are causing a problem in the minds of others. Does the 66% rise mean there are 66% more people with ADHD now than in 2000? Maybe but it could also be a case of under-diagnosis then or over-diagnosis now. Hard to say I guess. |
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Re: Why has there been a 66% rise in the number of ADHD diagnoses?
posted at 21/3/2012 5:23 PM GMT
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This could be three reasons, possibly more, Increased awareness as Steve says, also overidagnosis, and of course, I also believe our current Toxicology problems are increasing. I truly believe there is a pollution and toxic pattern here wth regard to Organic problems in the brain stemming from increased environmental toxins, anyone else suspect this? duaneF |
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Re: Why has there been a 66% rise in the number of ADHD diagnoses?
posted at 21/3/2012 6:00 PM GMT
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It is increased awareness, sometimes overdiagnosis but it is also true that something is happening. As many times is the case, there are multiple factors involved. We are currently looking into some factors but as yet I cannot provide any information about it. One thing has to be said: we are witnessing the rise in many countries.
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Re: Why has there been a 66% rise in the number of ADHD diagnoses?
posted at 24/3/2012 11:11 PM GMT
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I hate to say it, but judging from my clinical experience with American college students I would say a fair proportion of the increase has to do with drug-seeking behavior which it is a bit misleading to categorize as "overdiagnosis." |
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Re: Why has there been a 66% rise in the number of ADHD diagnoses?
posted at 7/5/2012 4:30 PM BST
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The latest news related to this thread is that figures from the NHS business services authority show that prescriptions for Ritalin have gone up from 158,000 in 1999 to 661,463 in 2010. It has also been suggested by the Assoc of Educational Psychologists that Ritalin is being prescribed for children with behavioural difficulties but without proper consideration of offering complimentary treatments or non pharma logical interventions. They also criticise this increase in prescribing Ritalin because it has a poor evidence base... http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/may/06/ritalin-adhd-shocks-child-psychologists |
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Re: Why has there been a 66% rise in the number of ADHD diagnoses?
posted at 7/5/2012 10:17 PM BST
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Thanks for a good post Dr. Matthews! The increase in diagnosis of ADHD is a global fact, & neither is it an increased awareness nor an overdiagnosis! |
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