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  • 16 - Being and Thinking

  • Edited by Thomasine Kushner
  • Book:
    Surviving Health Care
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    29 March 2010, pp 222-245

  • Summary

    This chapter describes survival strategies for challenges related to our health and well-being. Many of the accusations hurled against parents and physicians as part of the debate over ADHD are unfair and untrue. However, it is the case that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses and stimulant drug use to treat this condition have risen sharply over the past decade throughout the world. Stimulant drugs are the most common form of treatment for ADHD. In the largest study of ADHD treatments to date, stimulants were found to be more effective than behavioural therapy, and more effective than behavioural therapy combined with stimulant drugs. Stimulants also have side effects, although these usually are mild. However, they may interfere with sleep and appetite and suppress child's growth very slightly. More severe side effects are rare.