The number of children put on drugs for attention problems is staggering, and school authorities pressure parents to use dangerous stimulant medications and antidepressants to keep children behaving in specific desirable patterns in the classroom...
Children are naturally inquisitive, explorative, demonstrative, and sensitive. Unfortunately,the majority of schools demand that children conform to more or less rigid expectations for behavior and admonish any significant deviations. Here are some...
One of the side effects of our modern environment and diet has been an increase in illnesses such as autism and hyperactivity. It is important to recognize that these do not have a single cause but are rather the common endpoint for many different...
One of the side effects of our modern environment and diet has been an increase in illnesses such as autism and hyperactivity. It is important to recognize that these do not have a single cause but are rather the common endpoint for many different...
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DeNae D'Auria is one of three recent Bastyr University health psychology graduates who submitted their senior research projects to the Washington
Every day 3 to 5 percent of American schoolchildren take Ritalin, a mind- and behavior-altering prescription drug for hyperactivity (ADHD). Although the actual impact of Ritalin on young people is poorly understood, children diagnosed with ADHD...
In their article, Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, N.D., M.S.W., and Robert Ullman, N.D. challenge the conventional view of lumping together children with a wide variety of symptoms into Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and treating them with the highly...
Drs. Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Robert Ullman in their article report on the reactions of children with ADD (and their parents) who have been first medicated with Ritalin and then subsequently treated with homeopathic medicine.
The epidemic proportions of the ADD diagnosis are gaining widespread attention from parents, educators, physicians, and other healthcare providers. Many people are seriously questioning the possibility of overdiagnosis. The rate of Ritalin use in...