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...ba href=/hyperactivity/a/b disorder should have clearer warnings printed on their labels.

THE CONCERN: The ADHD drugs have been known to cause serious side effects such as hallucinations and heart problems.

OTHER SIDE: Some health care professionals opposed applying stronger warnings because they feared patients would be less likely to use the drugs.

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In the United States, where nearly 3.3 million children and young adults use such drugs to control ADHD (Attention Deficit ba href=/hyperactivity/a/b Disorder), the Food and Drug Administration is considering placing strongly worded warning labels on them following a number of studies documenting negative side-effects.

Young children experienced hallucinations involving insects, snakes and worms.

In dozens of clinical trials, none of the children prescribed placebos suffered this effect.

In Scotland prescriptions of the controversial chemical have risen ten-fold in a decade.

Yet there are no specific tests for ADHD and no consensus about what causes it, let alone how to treat it.

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... The GSU Signal - Disability dodges despair at the Office of Disability Services Wednesday March 22, 2006 Front Page News College Living Perspectives About Us About Us Sponsors Archives Search News options COLLEGE LIVING Date Rape 101:  The Ultimate guide to survival Get pumped:  Georgia State men mount up A tale of two spring breaks:  Bucking the party time trend Disability dodges despair at the Office of Disability Services by Ben Kitchings March 21, 2006 Hope hides on the second floor of the Student Center.

It hides from the glare of misunderstanding and pity.

To walk into the Margaret A.

Staton Georgia State Office of Disability Services and ask to speak with its clients about their disability is the very definition of getting the cold shoulder.

Sure, students were uniformly busy, cramming for tests or writing papers, and doing a whole host of other things one normally does if one wishes to succeed at Georgia State.

Yet, there was another, deeper reason why the vast majority of those in the O.D.S.

(Office of Disability Services) refused a 20-minute interview.

“I knew this would happen when [The Signal] suggested the idea,” Louise Bedrossian, the Office’s cognitive disabilities specialist stated in response to my bewilderment of a blank sign-up sheet, “These people don’t want to be pitied.

They just want go to college, just like everybody else.” Despite their initial skepticism, a few students from the O.D.S.

did talk to the Signal.

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