ADD and ADHD – Why All the Focus on Medications?
When you hear about ADD-ADHD, you often hear about medication sooner or later… usually sooner. Most of the time, the person sings the praises of medication. However, an increasing set of voices are less thrilled with medication options. Parents want to know about the long term health effects of medications. They wonder, “Exactly what do these ADD medications do?” Many people ask why some of these medications are so similar to speed. That seems like giving a child a line of coke to snort. How can that be healthy? Other people wonder if behavior modification drugs increase the risk of children self-medicating when they become teenagers. In addition, do other problems get lost in the medicating? Are these concerns valid? Here are some things I have discovered in my research: Between the years of 1990 and 2000, over 569 children were hospitalized in ADD/ADHD medication-related incidents, 38 of them were life threatening hospitalizations, and 186 died. Some people claim that number is now
When you hear about ADD / ADHD, you often hear about medication sooner or later… usually sooner. Most of the time, the person sings the praises of medication. However, an increasing set of voices are less thrilled with medication options. Parents want to know about the long term health effects of medications. They wonder, “Exactly what do these ADD medications do?” Many people ask why some of these medications are so similar to speed. That seems like giving a child a line of coke to snort. How can that be healthy? Other people wonder if behavior modification drugs increase the risk of children self-medicating when they become teenagers. In addition, do other problems get lost in the medicating? Are these concerns valid? Here are some things I have discovered in my research: Between the years of 1990 and 2000, over 569 children were hospitalized in ADD/ADHD medication-related incidents, 38 of them were life threatening hospitalizations, and 186 died. Some people claim that number is n
