ADHD leads to depression in teens

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8041426/ADHD-leads-to-depression-in-teens.html

The drugs they give them cause the tendency.
2 year olds and babies are now diagnosed with ADHD.
The curious part is there is no actual tests to diagnose it.
Most of it is done off the recommendation of the child's school, because the teachers deems it necessary to control rather than to teach.
Big Pharma is making a killing off of this in more ways than one.

Teens diagnosed with ADHD as young children are also far more likely to have suidical tendencies, academics at Maryland University in the US discovered.

They looked at 248 nine-to-18-year-olds, half of whom had been diagnosed with ADHD as young children, and found a greater risk of depression among those with the condition.

Side Effects May Include Lawsuits

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/business/03psych.html?src=me&ref=business

More corporate crime that is only punished with a fine when they're caught. The elite don't do time.
It's not all about money, it's also about mass control.

The industry continues to market antipsychotics aggressively, leading analysts to question how drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration for about 1 percent of the population have become the pharmaceutical industry’s biggest sellers — despite recent crackdowns.

Some say the answer to that question isn’t complicated.

“It’s the money,” says Dr. Jerome L. Avorn, a Harvard medical professor and researcher. “When you’re selling $1 billion a year or more of a drug, it’s very tempting for a company to just ignore the traffic ticket and keep speeding.”

Depression diagnoses fell after FDA antidepressant warning

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-06-01-depression-fda_N.htm?obref=obinsite

Interesting to say the least, perhaps some of the DR's found they had a conscience after all.


A persistent decline in the rate of Americans, especially children, newly diagnosed with depression followed the first federal warning on risks connected with antidepressant drugs, a study suggests.
In 2003, the Food and Drug Administration first warned about the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in young people taking the drugs. That action may have helped reverse a five-year trend of rising rates of diagnosis for depression, the researchers found.

The findings, published Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry, are based on an analysis of eight years of data from nearly 100 managed care plans and more than 55 million patients.

It was already known that antidepressant use among young people had fallen since the drugs began carrying a so-called "black box" warning about risks. But the data showing an extended decline in the level of depression diagnoses are new.

In some cases, untreated depression can be more dangerous than suicidal feelings when starting antidepressants and a spike in teenage suicides in 2004 worried some experts that could be another unintended result of the FDA warnings. Then, teen suicides fell slightly the following year, offering hope that the suicide increase was just a blip