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E. Clarke Ross, CEO of the patient advocate organization Children and Adults with Adult Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), wrote a rather lame response to a criticism today in a USA Today editorial regarding the Multimodal Treatment Study for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Study (MTA) of ritalin versus psychotherapy for the treatment of childhood ADHD,
results from the ongoing NIH funded Multi-site Multimodality Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA) study (updated in an article this week in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) showed that treatment with the stimulant medication Ritalin (methylphenidate) wasn’t any better than behavioral treatment after two years.
Book Review: Is It You, Me, or Adult ADD? by Gina Pera (Alarm Press, 2008)
I know someone with childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) whom I describe as Jack in my book in order to describe all of the possible side effects you can get with drugs like Adderall. However I didn’t know [...]
After posting about the increase in psychotropic drug use in children and commenting that doctors should stop giving antipsychotics to children without schizophrenia I got some words of praise from Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons and some interesting information from Lisa Van Syckel who gave me a list of ages and drugs [...]
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of children on prescription medications in the last few years, as Liz Szabo wrote today in USA Today “Number of kids on medication jumps alarmingly: Most of the illnesses related to obesity”. From 2002-2005 there was a doubling of kids on prescription medications for Type [...]
A quote from a physician describing the results of study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine on the effects of Zoloft (sertraline) or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or a combination of the two on childhood anxiety disorders, describing the results of the study as “incredible”, lead me to take [...]
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