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out there anyway.    My family is back in Italy (I'm American) so we're in touch all the time re; schools, kids, parents, teachers, relatives and do you know as much as I search and search throughout that country, I cannot find any children dxd and taking medications for ADD/ADHD.    It makes it very hard to understand all this, although I'm not judging anyone or saying I'm not going ahead with.Greece either.   I would love to hear good arguments on the statistics.

This article states the incidence of ADHD in Italy:

http://www.angelfire.com/journal/ldps/ADDADHD.htm

Also, this survey about it taking 3+ years in Italy for diagnosis compared to other contries (US 1 year and others 2 years) would indicate there is a reluctance to diagnose ADHD in Italy.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&ST ORY=/www/story/08-24-2004/0002237518&EDATE