Posts Tagged ‘ADD & ADHD’
ADD/ADHD and School
There are so many concerns surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of ADD/ADHD that parents must be knowledgeable and cautious. It is usually the school that approaches parents to have an assessment for ADD/ADHD and parents often feel pressured in having the traditional drug treatment to ‘correct’ their child’s behavior.
ADD/ADHD: Medication Concerns
Although no chemical imbalance has ever been proven, health professionals prescribe psychostimulant medication (such as Ritalin, Strattera, Adderall) as the primary treatment in correcting the ‘chemical imbalance’. In 2000, more than 19 million prescriptions for ADHD drugs were filled, a 72% increase since 1995.
However, with the known side effects of these drugs and without knowledge or evidence of long-term results on growth and development, is medication really the best option?
ADD & ADHD: Possible Causes
Although health professionals often state that ADD/ADHD is a brain-based biological disorder caused by a brain chemical imbalance, there is simply no reliable test to prove this — no physical or chemical abnormality validates ADHD as a medical disease.
Before accepting a diagnosis of ADD or ADHD, parents should rule out other conditions that show similar behavior symptoms.
ADD & ADHD
Attention Deficit Disorder describes the characteristics
of inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity
that may be present in some children and adults.
Although health professionals often state that ADD/ADHD is a brain-based biological disorder caused by a brain chemical imbalance, there is simply no reliable test to prove this — no physical or chemical abnormality validates ADHD as a medical disease.
Since there can be no diagnosis without a disease, what is there?
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