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ERIC Number: EJ125933
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1975
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Drugging the American Child: We're Too Cavalier About Hyperactivity
Walker, Sydney
Journal of Learning Disabilities, 8, 6, 354-8, Jun/Jul 75
Physicians have been treating hyperactivity in children with drugs as if it were a disease instead of a collection of symptoms which require exhaustive diagnostic tests to determine the underlying problem. (DB)
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Drug Therapy, Etiology, Exceptional Child Services, Hyperactivity, Medical Services
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