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More Kids Are Hyper and Sad Inside



If you think kids are more upset, hyper and out of control than they used to be, a survey of pediatricians involving 21,000 patients shows you're right.

From 1979 to 1996, cases of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, depression and learning disabilities more than doubled, a wire service story in the Detroit News states.

More single-parent households (22 percent, up from 16 percent) and poor families are cited. Medicaid figures jumped from 6 percent to 18 percent in the same period.

ADHD cases showed the largest leap -- from 1.4 percent of kids to 9.2 percent. Emotional problems such as anxiety and depression, once a rarity, now hit 3.6 percent of all children.

Visits to doctors shot up 90 percent between 1989 and 1996, and in 75 percent of the visits, the use of drugs to control ADHD came up, according to one story reported by HealthSCOUT. Another notes that the National Institute of Mental Health says more than 6 percent of 9- to 17-year-olds will face depression.

(From Bell South)

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