http://addadhdadvances.com/ADHD Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:02:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Watch ADHD Alternative Medical Treatment |  View More ODD Parenting Videos What I'm going to discuss today is alternative medicines for ADHD, specifically the problems with alternative medicine. Now, many people think that I am against using conventional medicine for treating ADHD and that's not true. It's also not true ... http://addadhdadvances.com/ADHD/10/10/ Every woman knows that iron deficiency can cause anemia. It is one of the most common health problems in women. However, did you know that iron deficiency has been implicated in a number of other psychiatric and neurological conditions. One of these conditions is ADHD. Here is another not well known fact. ... http://addadhdadvances.com/ADHD/9/adhd-and-iron-deficiency/ The Myths of Treating ADHD If you are concerned or worried about treating your ADHD child with drugs, you are not alone. If you decided to treat with drugs and your child is can't fall asleep at night, you are not alone. If you decided to treat with drugs and your child is ... http://addadhdadvances.com/ADHD/8/adhd-treatment-the-myths/ A new parenting program to help parents with their difficult defiant children was released a few days ago.  This program is in Spanish. Trastorno de Oposición DesafianteIf your native language is Spanish, this is the only option out there.          http://addadhdadvances.com/ADHD/7/new-parenting-program-fo-odd/ 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 ... http://addadhdadvances.com/ADHD/6/oppositional-defiant-disorder-and-sleep-problems/ 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 ... http://addadhdadvances.com/ADHD/5/adhd-medication-abuse/ 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 ... http://addadhdadvances.com/ADHD/4/add-adhd-medications-as-brain-steroids/ 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 ... http://addadhdadvances.com/ADHD/3/adhd-alternative-treatments/ If you are concerned or worried about treating your ADD ADHD child with drugs, you are not alone. If you treat your ADD ADHD child with drugs and your child can't fall asleep at night, you are not alone. If your ADD ADHD child is losing weight, you are not alone. If the drugs your ... http://addadhdadvances.com/ADHD/2/treating-add-adhd-the-myths/