HEALTH: Are too many Australian children over-medicated?*

Dr George Halasz, a Melbourne child psychiatrist, describes the sykrocketing numbers of children in Australia with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a “manufactured epidemic”.In the past seven years there has been a ten-fold to twenty-fold increase in the use of Ritalin and Dexamphetamine – the prescription drugs used to treat the disorder. Two State Parliamentary inquiries share his concern. The South Australian Parliament is investigating AD…

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