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Published on: 10/9/2002
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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.
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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.