They are looking for kids with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder who have never been medicated. Herein lies the claim they are diagnosing a disease, a physical abnormality within the child. Members of the coalition two weeks ago protested outside Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, which is affiliated with Columbia University, handing out leaflets alerting parents, schools and community groups. The coalition is worried researchers will offer money for subjects or give parents false hopes that their children will be cured. They also worry that the unknown, long-term side effects of the drugs might harm kids.
All drugs bear the potential for manifest and silent, unknown, injury, even death.
Advocates are also wondering how researchers are going to properly diagnose the preschoolers - some of who can't express themselves thoroughly. Acad of Pediatrics, Child Neurology Society, Am. Psychiatric Assoc., American Acad. of Neurology, Am. It is all a monstrous scam to turn normal human beings into patients to be treated . The children will be diagnosed by a special group of researchers composed of up of six institutions, including Johns Hopkins, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at Irvine, and Duke, said Greenhill, who insisted the parents will only be given money to get and from the hospital.