ADHD Medication Use Rising Dramatically, Especially Adults
A report released today by Express Scripts, the nation's largest prescription drug manager, offers "the most current and comprehensive analysis of ADHD medication use" among privately insured...
View Article“Here’s 1 More Map That Should Outrage Southerners”
The recently released report from Express Scripts showing a dramatic rise in the use of stimulant medications, often prescribed for ADHD, also shows that the use of the meds is dramatically higher...
View Article“Doctor: ADHD Does Not Exist” (Time Magazine)
Dr. Richard Saul comments in Time Magazine on this week's New York Times article on the dramatic increase in adults taking ADHD medication: "Over the course of my career, I have found more than 20...
View ArticleSo They Say Your Child has ADHD? April Fools!
My new book, Debunking ADHD: 10 Reasons to Stop Drugging Kids for Acting Like Kids, is scheduled to be released tomorrow, on April 1st. Really, no joke. To be honest, when my editor informed me of this...
View Article“Are Doctors Diagnosing Too Many Kids With ADHD?”
Salon.com points out that "While data point to at least some over diagnosis (of ADHD), at least in boys, the extent of this problem remains unclear." Are doctors diagnosing too many kids with ADHD?...
View Article“Sluggish Cognitive Tempo” is the New ADHD
"Some powerful figures in mental health," according to today's New York Times, "are claiming to have identified a new disorder that could vastly expand the ranks of young children treated for attention...
View Article“A Generation of Stimulation Junkies: Television, ADD and ADHD”
Mod Vive reports that "The rampant self-diagnosing of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is out of control. There is also an increasing amount of people saying they have adult-onset...
View Article‘ADHD’ and Dangerous Driving
In 2006, Laurence Jerome, a Canadian psychiatrist, and two colleagues wrote a paper titled What We Know About ADHD and Driving Risk: A Literature Review, Meta-Analysis and Critique. It was published in...
View ArticleNews Flash: 4.5 Million Children Forced Daily by “Caretakers” to Do...
Before we get to the meat and potatoes documenting how this headline is not only shocking but also accurate, you must know that a secondary goal of this blog is to test a few theories. I have been...
View ArticleEliminating certain foods may help ADHD symptoms
A team of Danish nutritionists, medical doctors, and psychiatrists have published a review of the scientific literature on ADHD and diet in the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. They analyzed 52 studies,...
View ArticleADHD: A Return to Psychology
Welcome! This blog presents a psychological understanding of the diagnostic category “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (ADHD). Over the past decades, professionals have been informing the...
View ArticleLong-term Safety of ADHD Drugs Has Never Been Studied
Even though about 10% of American children have been diagnosed with ADHD and most are taking stimulant medications for it, Boston Children’s Hospital researchers report in PLOS One that there have been...
View ArticleThe Logic of the ADHD Diagnosis
Welcome! This blog presents a psychological understanding of the diagnostic category “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (ADHD). Over the past decades, professionals have been informing the...
View ArticleADHD Medication Risks Outweigh Benefits in Most Cases
A systematic review of studies of stimulant medications for ADHD has concluded that the drugs should be used as a last resort, in rare cases, and for short durations only. Publishing in the Revista de...
View Article“ADHD treatment market value to reach $9.9 bn by 2020″
According to business intelligence firm GBI Research, the ADHD medication market will rise in value from $6.9 billion in 2013 to $9.9 billion by 2020, "with broadening diagnostic criteria a key driver...
View ArticleADHD and “The Merchants of Speed”
Pediatrician and UCSF professor Lawrence Diller has issued the fourth of a four-part memoir on Huffington Post, recounting the rise of ADHD medicating and his experiences interacting with drug company...
View ArticleNot Another Brick in The Wall
When searching for answers related to mental health, at times it can feel as if one is looking for a door in a brick wall. The task can become even more difficult when a family or individual embraces a...
View ArticleAre We Discovering More ADHD?
This is an important issue. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the percentage of children with an ADHD diagnosis continues to increase, from 7.8% in 2003 to 9.5% in 2007 and...
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The Federal Report on Financial Relationships Between Pharma Industry and...
But Shadows Remain on the Controversial ADHD Drug Market The new Social Security Act, an Obamacare-inspired, Open Payments report came out September 30th. As part of the new healthcare reform policy,...
View ArticleWhat Does an 800 lb Gorilla in the Room Say at an ADHD Conference? The Truth…
This blog is a little different than my normal. I want to tell you about an inspiring ADHD conference I took part in last week and a band of 800 lb. gorillas who gently shared the obvious with adults...
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