What Doctors Don't Tell YouI have a question for you. Cigarettes, alcohol, petrol, sugar and high-emission cars - which is the odd one out? All have a highly negative impact on our health.
The growing ‘grey’ population may be raking in the cash for drug companies, but look at the other end of the age spectrum and you’ll also see burgeoning trade. The number of children diagnosed with mental disorders, including attention...
Everyone recognizes ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactive disorder) as a problem in childhood and adolescence when the full weight of medicine is on hand to suppress the more worrying symptoms.
FDA sits and waits amid Adderall deaths. Many are aware of the dangerous side-effects of amphetamines, especially when they are used to treat children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Yet, it has taken 20 sudden deaths and 12...
ADHD, PART I: Thank goodness, another new drug for our kids
Readers’ letters
ADHD, PART II: OK, it's time for some joined-up thinking
Re the article (WDDTY vol 15 no 7) ‘The newest brainkillers’ on the harmful side-effects of Ritalin, prescribed for hyperactive children, the British National Formulary, the book which UK GPs prescribe from, also warns that children given Ritalin...
It's a fact that ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is an over diagnosed 'condition' that makes patients of children who used to be classified as 'difficult' or 'energetic'. Once the ADHD label has been attached, a child can become a...
Using sophisticated brain imaging techniques, US researchers have concluded that Ritalin (methylphenidate), taken by millions of children worldwide, exerts the same effect on the brain as cocaine.
