Renowned Harvard Psychologist Says ADHD is Largely a Fraud

[longknife]

Ohmahgosh, how can that be? Experts and doctors have virtually made an industry of doping kids after diagnosing them with this.

Could it possibly be that kids are disgusted with inept and unqualified teachers who drone on from propaganda tools called text books?

Instead of immediately resorting to pharmaceutical drugs, he thinks doctors should take more time with the child to find out why they aren’t as cheerful, for instance. At the very least, a few tests should be carried out — and an EEG for certain, especially since studies have shown that people who have heightened activity in the right frontal lobe respond poorly to antidepressants.

Much more @ Renowned Harvard Psychologist Says ADHD is Largely a Fraud – ADHD WORLD

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

ADHD is Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Normal human male child behavior. Something the Left is trying to destroy.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

Kids are not square pegs to be forced into round holes, whether at school, home or the community. When they are forced and/or expected to be, they will rebel by acting up.....they are then diagnosed & drugged into submission. It's done for the convenience of the adults (teachers, parents, coaches, etc) because nobody takes the time to spend with the kids.

 

[Jlo]

ADHD is Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Normal human male child behavior. Something the Left is trying to destroy.

Ohmahgosh, how can that be? Experts and doctors have virtually made an industry of doping kids after diagnosing them with this.

Could it possibly be that kids are disgusted with inept and unqualified teachers who drone on from propaganda tools called text books?

Instead of immediately resorting to pharmaceutical drugs, he thinks doctors should take more time with the child to find out why they aren’t as cheerful, for instance. At the very least, a few tests should be carried out — and an EEG for certain, especially since studies have shown that people who have heightened activity in the right frontal lobe respond poorly to antidepressants.

Much more @ Renowned Harvard Psychologist Says ADHD is Largely a Fraud – ADHD WORLD

My daughter was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 6. She could not sit still. Her attention span was very short as most children’s are. This was 21 yrs ago and I was a very young mother. They( being the school psychologist and the teachers) recommended Ritalin so she could be on the honor roll. I said the hell with that.. for 5 yrs I had to hear about how she should be on that drug which is a schedule II. So aggravating. I knew even then that this wasn’t a DX but rather a set of symptoms & medicating her didnt feel right in my spirit. So, I began researching. I read “ Is this your child?” By Doris Rapp. I took her to a homeopathic Dr. and then I had her tested for allergies. Once we began weekly allergy shots, her behavior improved substantially. She was then making the honor roll. Medications have their place as I try to not be an extremist. However, I don’t feel their place is in bodies of little humans that naturally can not sit still more than 15 minutes anyhow. I’m so glad that I had the fortitude to hang tight to my beliefs because it surely wasn’t easy. Now, my daughter is amazing, intelligent and socially productive.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Good for you!

When I was teaching martial arts, it was not unusual for parents to report that they had taken their children off Ritalin after a certain period of training.

 

[Jlo]

Good for you!

When I was teaching martial arts, it was not unusual for parents to report that they had taken their children off Ritalin after a certain period of training.

That’s awesome! Good work!

 

[toobfreak]

Ohmahgosh, how can that be? Experts and doctors have virtually made an industry of doping kids after diagnosing them with this.

Could it possibly be that kids are disgusted with inept and unqualified teachers who drone on from propaganda tools called text books?

Instead of immediately resorting to pharmaceutical drugs, he thinks doctors should take more time with the child to find out why they aren’t as cheerful, for instance. At the very least, a few tests should be carried out — and an EEG for certain, especially since studies have shown that people who have heightened activity in the right frontal lobe respond poorly to antidepressants.

Much more @ Renowned Harvard Psychologist Says ADHD is Largely a Fraud – ADHD WORLD

Congratulations on discovering one of the first edges to the modern medical pie that doctors are not necessarily there to do what's best for you anymore like in the old days. Some of them are on the boards of pharmaceuticals and promote their meds, many doctors are limited just to the meds a certain plan covers. Many doctors are pressured to diagnose in certain ways for legal liability. Bottom line, medicine today is a game between the doctor and hospital and the insurance company. Like a car owner and a mechanic, you, the patient are now much like the car up on the rack to get your transmission flushed. Doesn't matter what you really want or need, they will give you what they want you to have.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Ohmahgosh, how can that be? Experts and doctors have virtually made an industry of doping kids after diagnosing them with this.

Could it possibly be that kids are disgusted with inept and unqualified teachers who drone on from propaganda tools called text books?

Instead of immediately resorting to pharmaceutical drugs, he thinks doctors should take more time with the child to find out why they aren’t as cheerful, for instance. At the very least, a few tests should be carried out — and an EEG for certain, especially since studies have shown that people who have heightened activity in the right frontal lobe respond poorly to antidepressants.

Much more @ Renowned Harvard Psychologist Says ADHD is Largely a Fraud – ADHD WORLD

Congratulations on discovering one of the first edges to the modern medical pie that doctors are not necessarily there to do what's best for you anymore like in the old days. Some of them are on the boards of pharmaceuticals and promote their meds, many doctors are limited just to the meds a certain plan covers. Many doctors are pressured to diagnose in certain ways for legal liability. Bottom line, medicine today is a game between the doctor and hospital and the insurance company. Like a car owner and a mechanic, you, the patient are now much like the car up on the rack to get your transmission flushed. Doesn't matter what you really want or need, they will give you what they want you to have.

Yup. My GP, who scrupulously avoids all government entanglements, openly states that most of the shit prescribed people often is useless to their condition or entails far more risk than benefit, and the result-expected levels assigned many drugs are "doctored" (excuse the pun) with the clear aim of ... selling more drugs.

 

[waltky]

Kids antibiotic use is down...

Kids Are Taking Fewer Antibiotics, More ADHD Meds
May 15, 2018 • Doctors are prescribing fewer drugs to children, especially antibiotics. But use of certain drugs, including ADHD medications, has increased.

Children and adolescents are getting fewer prescription drugs than they did in years past, according to a study that looks at a cross-section of the American population. "The decrease in antibiotic use is really what's driving this overall decline in prescription medication use that we're seeing in children and adolescents," says Craig Hales, a preventive medicine physician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics and lead author of a study published Tuesday in JAMA. Hales says that's a good thing. "Thirty percent of antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary and potentially dangerous," he says. They're often given for colds and other viral infections, where they are useless. And they may have side effects. Antibiotic overuse also increases the risk that these drugs lose their curative powers.

The study is based on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, which included more than 38,000 children and adolescents. The study compared prescription drug use from 1999 to 2002 with prescriptions given in 2011 to 2014, the last period for which data were available. Overall, the proportion of children and teenagers getting prescriptions dropped from about 25 percent to 22 percent. Prescriptions for some drugs increased, such as for treatments for asthma, contraception and attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The survey also noted a large gap in prescription use among children and adolescents who were insured versus those who weren't. Some 23 percent of insured youth had recently taken a prescription of some sort, compared with 10 percent of those who were uninsured.

It's hard to know how exactly to interpret many of the findings, says Gary Freed, a pediatrician and researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School, who was not involved with the research. That gap could be a sign of overuse among the insured or underuse in the uninsured. "It's very common for people who don't need things but want to pay for them, to be able to get them," Freed says. "It's also possible that some children who really need medications, if they're uninsured, don't get them." The study doesn't provide information that can address key questions like that. For example, antihistamines are widely overused or inappropriately used in children, Freed says. The study shows a decline in prescriptions for antihistamines, but that may simply be because many of these drugs came available without a prescription during the study period. "So the fact that the prescribing went down may mean something good or it may simply mean that people are going to the drugstore and buying those same medications," Freed says.

Freed says he can't even say whether the overall use of prescription drugs in children and teen-agers, at 22 percent in a typical 30-day period, is a sign of overuse or underuse. "The danger is thinking 'oh my goodness that's so many kids getting medications,' " he says. "But at the same time, before we make that conclusion we have to know whether those were appropriate or not appropriate. "More children than ever are alive today because they've survived diseases that require medical treatment, he notes. Yet certain drugs are still overused. And in other instances, such as ADHD drugs, there's disagreement about when treatment is appropriate. Those questions require more directed – and more expensive – studies. Hales hopes that his broad-brush findings will stimulate that further research.

Kids Are Taking Fewer Antibiotics, More ADHD Meds