I was just recently told a story about an employer participating in a recruiting day at a nearby faculty. The recruiter was representing a Federal law enforcement agency. Surprisingly, a number of students searching for info about Federal employment approached the recruiter's booth reeking of marijuana. The college students appeared dumbfounded when the recruiter advised that candidates for this particular bureau has to be drug-free for 5 years just before being eligible for work, or much longer if other drugs are used.

Even though Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) affects some 8 million adults in the United States it often goes undiagnosed. Part of the challenge is there is no specific test to comfortably identify the condition in adults or children. Experts estimate that 5 % of school age kids are affected by ADD with and with no hyperactivity. 60 % of these children will continue to have issues into adulthood. Generally physical hyperactivity diminishes as an adult and it is much less of a dilemma.

Prescription drug abuse is very common in the Unites States with a large number of younger school kids resorting to such type of medications to get the highs of theirs. It is the second usually abused category of medicines after marijuana as estimated by the office of National Drug Control Policy. It's believed by The National Institutes of Health that aproximatelly 1 in each and every 5 persons in the US have been using medications that require a prescription for non-medical reasons eventually in time.

Would be the chances of heart disease higher in children who are prescribed stimulant medications for ADHD than for kids who are not taking such medications? Researchers from the Faculty of Florida investigated this question, and what they found might generate parents uneasy.