| One of the most respected researchers on | | | | ADHD medications. There are no such warnings or |
| ADHD, William Pelham has now come out strongly | | | | risky side effects with ADHD natural cures. |
| against ADHD medications and asserts that | | | | The other facts about ADHD medications that |
| research shows they are practically useless in the | | | | parents want to know is what are the long term |
| long term. This is just one of the facts about | | | | effects on the neural development of their |
| ADHD medications which may or may not get | | | | children. One of the most alarming facts about |
| publicity, depending whose website you happen to | | | | ADHD medications is that nobody knows exactly |
| be visiting. He also claims that fellow scientists | | | | how they work on the brain transmitters which |
| were unwilling to acknowledge that there was | | | | control our impulses, moods and concentration. |
| evidence which showed that the usefulness of | | | | So, we have drugs which are basically mind |
| ADHD medications was somewhat limited over a | | | | altering ones (they are a sophisticated dose of |
| number of years. | | | | 'speed' in many cases) which have not been |
| Alarmed by the number of doctors giving | | | | studied for their effects in the long term |
| psychostimulants and antipsychotic drugs to | | | | development of children generally. Loss of |
| children with ADHD which was not strictly | | | | appetite, stunted growth and anxiety are all linked |
| necessary, the state of Florida decided to ask the | | | | to the ADHD medications, yet the number of |
| doctors to go through a review process. The | | | | prescriptions seems to be spiralling out of control. |
| number of prescriptions dropped dramatically in a | | | | Facts on ADHD meds tend to get a very patchy |
| year. When the situation was getting out of hand, | | | | coverage. |
| the authorities found that 23 babies less than a | | | | Wiser parents are not going to be taken in by this |
| year old had been prescribed antipsychotics ! With | | | | state of affairs much longer. They now know, no |
| e review process in place, the number dropped to | | | | thanks to Big Pharm, that there are alternative |
| zero last year. Why do you think that facts about | | | | therapies available. They now know that a |
| ADHD medications like these are not given wider | | | | combination of ADHD behavioral therapy with |
| coverage in other States or in the media? | | | | proper home and school support will work |
| Why do you think that the FDA has a warning on | | | | wonders. |
| the front page of their website which states very | | | | With a natural cure, this will work even better, |
| clearly that the drug companies must issue what | | | | given that the side effects are non-existent. Facts |
| they coyly call 'Medication Guides'? These guides | | | | on ADHD meds will always be censured to a |
| are to warn patients that psychotic events and | | | | certain degree as long as we have a flourishing |
| or cardiovascular risks have been linked to the | | | | drugs industry. |