Comments on: Stimulants May Offer Protection in ADHD

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:55:09 +0000

The correlation with tics has been fully disputed. It was initially thought that they would exacerbate tics/OCD, but that was found to be completely false. The “tics” you are talking about are side-effects of the stimulants that remit with cessation of medication.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:33:54 +0000

I was impressed with the credentials of the lead researcher, Dr. Beiderman, until I learned that he and two colleagues have been investigated by a Senate committee for illegally accepting over a million dollars from drug companies at the same time they were receiving federal funds for drug research at Harvard. I hope the journal article disclosed that he has received money from Eli Lilly.

Dr. Biederman has been credited for singlehandedly introducing the new phenomenon of childhood bipolar disorder, which has become a huge source of income for Big Pharma.

By: john glennon

john glennon — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:06:11 +0000

Medication has also been shown to stunt growth and produce other side effects like tics.

When faced with those facts, we chose to use a cognitive/behavioral program called Play Attention (www.playattention.com) and a structured rewards program call ADHD Nanny (www.adhdnanny.com). We are highly successful with these approaches.

It’s essential to understand that medicine teaches nothing. I strongly disagree with the idea that giving stimulants to children (Schedule II — the same category at cocaine) will increase white matter in the cortex. Ridiculous.

By: bianca

bianca — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:34:15 +0000

I am a 50 year old female, who just realized she has ADHD , I also knew I had difficulties but they were always masked but successes, I just lost a very successful job and it really made me look at myself. I had 4 therapist in one year and know i am in panic because i lost my job. I worst part of this is i have 2 children who also have this disorder a boy 15 very smart ,has a very hard time with homework and completing tasks and i have a girl 16 yr old who doesn’t have a lot of close friends does have acquiantes but is a poor student and doesn”t know why. I have spent endliss amount of hours at school over the years, I am exhausted.
I am a single parent no hardly any support from their father. We don’t communicate. My Mom died and my fathers is not in good health.
The strange thing is I just realized I passed this on to my family,we are plagued with this disease is there any organization and help I can receive? 204 570 9048