Comments on: ADD medication misuse a growing problem http://www.westernherald.com/news/add-medication-misuse-a-growing-problem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=add-medication-misuse-a-growing-problem Western Herald Online News Service Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:42:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Brian Carnell http://www.westernherald.com/news/add-medication-misuse-a-growing-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-9658 Brian Carnell Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:20:31 +0000 http://www.westernherald.com/?p=5573#comment-9658 Um, the headline says "ADD medication misuse a *growing* problem" but then the story itself doesn't present a single bit of evidence to back up that claim. We learn that some students take ADD friends ADD meds, and that doing so can have negative side effects, but we don't have any year to year statistics or even estimates to suggest this sort of phenomenon is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same over time. We don't even know from this article just how large a problem this is. Is this 5-10 students each semester, or is this a couple dozen or perhaps even a hundred. You could have just asked Sindecuse to write a press release and ran that as is. Um, the headline says “ADD medication misuse a *growing* problem” but then the story itself doesn’t present a single bit of evidence to back up that claim.

We learn that some students take ADD friends ADD meds, and that doing so can have negative side effects, but we don’t have any year to year statistics or even estimates to suggest this sort of phenomenon is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same over time.

We don’t even know from this article just how large a problem this is. Is this 5-10 students each semester, or is this a couple dozen or perhaps even a hundred.

You could have just asked Sindecuse to write a press release and ran that as is.

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