About half of the children with ADHD and ODD have sleep problems. There are a number of reasons for this. Most commonly, the sleep problems stem from the combined influence of their ADHD, their ODD, and their surrounding environment. On some occasions, however, there may be outside medical reasons for the trouble sleeping and the [...]
Recently there have been a lot of reports about a new form of drug abuse involving ADHD medications. Most of us are aware that children and teens use all sorts of prescription medications to get high. However, there is a new breed of ADHD drug abuser. These new drug abusers are not kids who are [...]
I just saw a post on Dr. Kenny Handelman’s ADHD Blog at http://www.addadhdblog.com/brain-steroids.
He wrote about an interesting form of ADHD medication abuse. There was an article at http://www.wired.com/ that discussed how many scientists and academicians are using ADHD drugs for intellectual performance enhancement.
The general feel at the blog was one of condemnation. I, however, looked at [...]
I am not anti-medication.
I am also not pro-alternative medicine, at least not blindly.
When parents choose not to treat their child’s ADHD many times they choose to go the alternative medicine route. This is almost always a mistake.
It is not that alternative treatments don’t work. When you get How to Help the Child You Love I [...]
