By Dr. Mercola
Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has issued controversial draft guidelines that could put parents’ right to choose whether or not to medicate their children with ADHD at risk.
There are clearly many superior alternatives for addressing ADHD than potentially dangerous psychiatric drugs that often contain different […]
by Dr. Peter R. Breggin
The New York Times
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The drugging of children for A.D.H.D. has become an epidemic. More than 5 million U.S. children, or 9.5 percent, were diagnosed with A.D.H.D. as of 2007. About 2.8 million had received a prescription for a stimulant medication in 2008.
The A.D.H.D. diagnosis does not identify a […]
by Dr. David Jockers
(NaturalNews) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently surveyed 73,000 children and found one in 10 has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This is a 22% increase since 2003. Research has shown that toxic and deficient lifestyle patterns are the chief contributing factor for this disorder. Natural lifestyle solutions […]
by Linda Carroll
msnbc.com
Amid what some claim is a growing epidemic of ADHD diagnoses, a study finds that almost one in four adults who show up in doctors’ offices seeking treatment may be exaggerating — or even faking — their symptoms.
Twenty-two percent of adults in the study who claimed they suffered from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder tried to […]
by Monica G. Young
(NaturalNews) We’re ashamed that exploitation of children for profit was once tolerated in America: such as children as young as five shackled to machines while working 16-hour days in factories, or black children auctioned and sold as slaves. Yet future generations will look back on our era too with shame: a […]
by Jonathan Benson
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) The overall rise in the number of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs being dispensed to children has been a major cause of concern among some medical groups, particularly as such drugs are now being prescribed to children under the age of six. In the UK, National Health Service (NHS) […]
by NPR Staff
Hyperactivity. Fidgeting. Inattention. Impulsivity. If your child has one or more of these qualities on a regular basis, you may be told that he or she has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. If so, they’d be among about 10 percent of children in the United States.
Kids with ADHD can be restless and difficult […]
by Elizabeth Farrelly
The Sydney Morning Hearld
Sedation nation: the cost of taking boisterous out of boys
Excerpt:
The Ritalin wars are usually treated as just another tussle between the pharmaceutical companies and the rest, but is there something else going on here as well? Is it part of a more generalised, covert war on boyhood?
Thirty […]
Harvard Public Health
Marc Weisskopf, assistant professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology, discusses a study that finds children exposed to higher levels of pesticides known as organophosphates could have a higher risk of being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
