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Information about issues surrounding the use of medication to treat ADHD.
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ADHD Drugs Outselling Antibiotics in Kids
Article on Planet Chiropractic that discusses the prevalence of ADHD medications today, stating that Americans now spend more on drugs for ADHD and depression than they do on antibiotics, or asthma or allergy medications for children.
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ADHD Fraud
ADHDFraud.com is the official website of Dr. Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD who has been an adult & child neurologist, in private practice, for 35 years. Dr. Baughman believes that there is currently no valid research that would term ADHD a "disease", but rather the diagnosis was created by psychiatric-pharmaceutical companies in order to bolster sales of their drugs, including Ritalin
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ADHD's Impact on Creativity
What if Einstein Had Taken Ritalin?: ADHD's Impact on Creativity is an article by Jeffrey Zaslow that appeared in the Wall Street Journal in February 2005. As some of the great thinkers of our time, such as Einstein, are now thought to have had ADHD, Zaslow examines how the current treatment for ADHD, namely Ritalin, would have affected their creativity and what consequences this would have had on society.
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Death from Ritalin: the Truth Behind ADHD
Death from Ritalin: The Truth Behind ADHD is one family's story about how how their son died from long-term Ritalin use. The parents were pressured into medicating their son by a Michigan school social worker. This family now seeks to inform others about ADHD and the dangers of psychotropic drugs used to treat it.
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Extreme Ritalin
In his article Extreme Ritalin, Lawrence H. Diller, MD, stresses that Ritalin, a drug for the treatment of ADHD, "should not become the moral equivalent of, or substitute for, better parenting and schools".
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Ritalin Improves ADHD at School, Not at Home
Ritalin Improves ADHD at School, Not at Home is a 1997 article that discusses a study from the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry which found that standard Ritalin treatment improved classroom behavior in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but it did not improve the children's behavior at home.
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Ritalin Use May Worsen Cocaine Abuse
This Herald article by Connie Prater and Shari Rudavsky talks about the University of Miami study which found that use of Ritalin, a drug used to treated ADHD, may worsen cocaine abuse as an adult.
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The Block Center: No More ADHD, No More Ritalin
The Block Center is Dr. Mary Ann Block's website, author of No More ADHD and No More Ritalin. Dr. Block is an international expert on the treatment of attention and behavior problems without drugs and a recognized healthcare leader for her natural and practical approach to children's health. In her practice, Dr. Block sees thousands of children from all over the world who have been damaged both physically and psychologically by the ADHD label.
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