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State of Opportunity Voices

Sarah Alvarez
Sarah Alvarez
Public Insight Journalist
Jennifer Guerra
Jennifer Guerra
Reporter/Producer
Dustin Dwyer
Dustin Dwyer
Reporter/Producer

Tagged: mental health

Health
1:52 pm
Tue October 16, 2012

What are we doing to treat kids with stress and trauma?

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Dustin's Dwyer's post on us all being defined in part by our brains when we were 4 years-old had me thinking, worrying actually, about people who were not stimulated as little kids. What about those kids that were not thriving in preschool, but were instead having a really rough time?

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11:01 am
Tue October 9, 2012

Should low-income kids take drugs to do better in school?

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Lead in text: 
This story went around between those on the State of Opportunity team this morning. Honestly, we all had the same reaction and we all thought it seemed pretty crazy. But maybe we're wrong? Tell us what you think. Do you have a child who takes one of these medications? Or are you a doctor who works with kids? Share your story with us.
  • Source: Nytimes
  • | Via: New York Times
The pills boost focus and impulse control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Although A.D.H.D is the diagnosis Dr. Anderson makes, he calls the disorder "made up" and "an excuse" to prescribe the pills to treat what he considers the children's true ill - poor academic performance in inadequate schools.
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11:32 am
Thu July 19, 2012

UPDATE: Trying to make sense of yesterday's tragedy in Detroit

Credit Google Street View
Young Manor Apartments in Detroit, where a 9-year-old boy fell to his death on Wednesday.
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Update 5:48 p.m.

Detroit EMS officials now say an ambulance did respond to the scene where a 9-year old boy fell to his death Wednesday.

Detroit State Representative Rashida Tlaib, based on statements from witnesses, said no ambulance ever arrived at the scene of the tragedy.

But Michigan Radio's Sarah Cwiek says EMS officials dispute that.

EMS officials say an ambulance was indeed dispatched just one minute after a 911 all came in, but police beat the ambulance to the scene and decided to take the boy to the hospital, where he later died.

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