Posted by Renee N on June 3, 2000, at 10:05:25
In reply to Re: H.R. 2987--ADDers: Feds crack down on amphetamines, posted by Sara T on May 30, 2000, at 9:37:46
> Here is a copy of an e-mail sent to me regarding a petition drive by one ADD online support site. It is a great site for any of you with ADD. Unfortunately the date for signing the petition has passed, but it is online for anyone to read if so interested.
>
> Sara T.
>You can see the updated document at
http://add.about.com/library/weekly/aa051800a.htm> This Resolution will be delivered to Rep. Bob Schaffer,
> author of the bill that initiated the Congressional
> Subcommittee Hearings about Ritalin use, and to Rep. Michael
> Castle, of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and
> Families, who chaired these hearings.
> I have a meeting scheduled in Colorado with Schaffer on
> Thursday to discuss this issue with him. If you have
> comments that you would like to have included in the
> discussion, then please include them in the post with your
> signature in the forum.
>
> It's time to either put up or shut up. You decide.
>
> Bob
>
> Bob Seay
> ADD.About.com
> http://add.about.comDear Sara and everyone,
Have you read their resolution? I don't like it.
These people have a real problem with school personnel . I believe school staff can be very helpful in identifying children with a variety of physical, mental, and emotional "challenges". Children in school are trying to learn academic and social skills in an enviroment that is not shared by parents or non-school professionals. Teachers and other education professionals have a unique and important view of the child where he/she spends a huge portion of his/her day. Of course no one knows a child as well as his/her family, but no one knows a child the same way as his /her teacher/classmates either. We need to try to work as a team with as many people as possible who have knowledge that can help our children.
The resolution Bob Seay and About.com authored also seemed to pretty anti meds in tone. I tried ADHD meds with my son for a year, then took him off to see the difference. The meds made him nervous and not noticeably better. When he went off the meds, he wasn't nervous and his ADHD symptoms weren't worse, so he no longer uses the meds. I am still experimenting with ADHD meds for myself with the help of a psychiatrist. I am happy to have the right to decide what's best for myself and my child with the advice of others.
I have known and/or worked with many children for whom ADHD meds made wonderful differences in their social and academic abilities, and consequently in their self confidence and capacity to like themselves. I wouldn't sign any resolution, petition, or document that could possibly make it more difficult for people who need any kind of medicine to improve the quality of their lives to get that medicine.Please read carefully before endorsing anyone else's ideas!!!
Renee N
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