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October 6, 2002

Parents may face jail over compulsory drug orders

By Charles Begley

29 September 2002

Parents of children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity

disorder (ADHD) will face jail under proposals in the new Mental Health

Bill if they refuse to drug their children, a psychiatrist has warned.

Dr Bob Johnson, who is at the forefront of a campaign against the

increasing reliance on drugs to treat hyperactive children, said the

wide-ranging powers of the Bill would over-rule the wishes of parents.

" The Bill is so punitive it dispenses with all civil and human rights.

Parents who have reservations about pumping their children full of

drugs to control them would be classed as denying their children

treatment, " he said. " It's only a matter of time before parents find themselves

in breach of such orders which are fully backed by the courts. "

Dr Johnson, a clinical psychiatrist for 40 years, said the huge rise in

the use of drugs was worrying. The number of prescriptions of the most

popular ADHD drug, Ritalin, stood at 208,000 last year, up from just

2,000 a decade earlier.

Some parents say they have little choice but to use drugs for their

children. Andrea Bilbow, who runs the Attention Deficit Disorder

Information and Support Service (Addiss), has given her 15-year-old son Ritalin

for nearly a decade. " If there was another way I would take it, but at

the moment it's the only treatment which gives him any quality of

life, " she said.

The Department of Health dismissed claims that new legislation would

lead to parents being jailed, but admitted the proposals would extend

compulsory treatment orders.

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