Do doctors automatically assume that patients are trying to score good drugs when they present with ADHD?
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no I do not think so\nDoctors make money every time the write a script for the big drug companies drug....\nso they just write and write and collect those big paychecks...\na lot do not even care what they write them for...( with in reason of coarse )...\ndentists used to have real cocaine in their office for medical use, but you could never get them to give you more than you would need to pull the tooth...\n\nlaugh\nsmile\nhave a great day
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I think this happens because people started "over-diagnosing" ADD especially.  When a child was acting up for a while, they had ADD and that was it.  Now the trend has gone back to, we messed up with that, no one really has ADD (By the way ADD is gone, it is now called ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).  So now it makes it hard to determine who really has a condition and who doesn't because a child could be having episodes (normal) or really have an issue.\n\nKudos to you for being a good parent and following up with your child rather than just believeing what teh school has to say.  I don't think parents gives kids or other authorities enough respect over things like schools or law.  Well Done and good luck!
862755
So many people today are like sheep, not taking responsibility, or not wanting to take any action for their own betterment. They don't want to take the time to do the real research, instead, they rely on teachers and doctors to herd them through life.\nIt pains me to see so many duped 'educated professionals'. They do not take the time to look at the evidence available outside of thier corporate dictated textbooks. Of course, if anything goes wrong they can always blame it on someone else.\n\n---------------\nJulian Whitaker M.D - "Class action lawsuits have been filed in Texas, California and New Jersey charging Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, maker of Ritalin, with conspiracy to create the psychiatric disorder known as ADHD in order to fuel the market for their product."\n\nLawsuits filed in Texas, California and New Jersey claim that the booming success of Ritalin is the result of a conspiracy in which the American Psychiatric Association, Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. and national parents' group Children and Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) colluded to create the diagnoses of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Following the acceptance of ADD/ADHD as medical diagnoses, sales of Ritalin and similar stimulants have skyrocketed, with more than 6 million such prescriptions being written in 1995, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.\n-------------\nCourts Order Kids To Take Drugs - Parents pressured to put kids on AZT, Ritalin, and other dangerous toxic drugs. Judges can constitutionally order controversial chemotherapy and drugs to be given to a child over the opposition of his parents.  Parents are medicating their children for fear of having them  hauled away by Child Protective Services. more \n\n"The drugging of children has gotten so out of hand that America is waking up to this. This is a national catastrophe. I'm seeing children who are normal who are on five psychiatric drugs." \nPeter R. Breggin, M.D. Director, International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology\n-------------\nDr. Allen Buresz - "In 1996 the World Health Organization warned that Ritalin over-use has reached dangerous proportions. Hopefully, by being armed with correct information, you may be able to avoid using Ritalin or other similar medications. Use of these drugs on a long-term basis is questionable. Safety of such long-term use is simply unknown, but many dangerous side effects have been increasingly. Ritalin, for instance, may provoke seizures and suppress growth, or it may cause angina, blood pressure changes, depression or any of a very long list of serious side effects."\n\nDr. Robert Mendelsohn MD - "No one has ever been able to demonstrate that drugs such as Cylert and Ritalin improve the academic performance of the children who take them.... The pupil is drugged to make life easier for his teacher, not to make it better and more productive for the child." \n-------------\nThe Connection Between ADD and Diet\nIt has long been known that consumption of certain foods and beverages can have a noticeable and particularly bad effect on ADD children, causing severe problems. These children, for example, often become extremely hyperactive after having coloured cordials or fruit syrup drinks, hot dogs, various junk foods and cola drinks. ADD, ADHD and related conditions are ones for which conventional medicine offers mainly drug treatments; stimulants which suppress symptoms but do not remove causes and which may have undesirable side effects. Other management techniques on offer - such as psychological intervention, educational and behavioural management techniques - commonly do not produce the desired results. Hertha Hafer's research explains why this is so. \n\nHafer has been studying the dietary connection to ADD/ADHD for twenty and more years. While it has long been kno
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Because there are meds out there now that tell them stress is severe and over-dramatic. Doctors sympathize with them to sell more drugs and really, they use their "conditions" to excuse a lot of what they do/don't do.
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Many doctors get a kick-back from the drug companies to push their products at any cost.  So they are trained and rewarded for turning a blind eye and a deaf ear.  There's no getting around the fact or ignoring the fact that it is all about MONEY!
420582
Definitely.   These days, our medications are so advanced that there is a pill that can virtually target any sympton in the body.  The past 10 years for medicine has been the biggest breakthrough decade (partly due to the internet).  ADHD is actually sluggish brainwaves and as a result, many distractions come into the brain because nevers aren't traveling back and forth at a fast enough rate (totally opposite of what most people think).  And there are medications that can go exactly to those nerves and speed them up causing more focus which automatically calms a kid.  Truly amazing.   I am not saying I'm an advocate of pills at all, but if someone's quality of life is suffering,,,,maybe it's an option.  The question was about being helped so I answered accordingly!!
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There is a growing number of professionals who are choosing to specialize in the treatment of adults who have ADD and ADHD, so your choices of treatment (if you are considering it) are far better than they were not long ago. The first thing that you might want to investigate is finding a professional who can administer testing to ascertain whether you have ADD or ADHD. This information is helpful, not only for you, but for whatever professionals you might choose for intervention (medication, therapy). You do have the right however, to simply go to your general physician and explain that you suspect you may have ADD/ADHD. Depending on the physician, you may be offered one of the many ADD/ADHD medications or you may be referred for therapy/counseling. Your insurance coverage wll dictate what type(s) of interventions you will be covered for and the number of sessions in therapy/counseling you will be allotted (when you have reached the limit, your physician or therapist does have the ability to appeal for more sessions, if they can substantiate the need). \nI think the best advice is to stay positive. ADD and ADHD are sources of strength. As individuals with ADD and ADHD, we are resourceful, creative thinkers who have the ability to put 110% into anything we put our mind to. There are several online communities with wonderful people who support one another and celebrate ADD and ADHD as positive; connecting with them may also help you learn more.
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I think it's only certain doctors that do this; my family doctor will give out pretty much any prescription like candy so long as he knows the medical history of the person.\n\nI think that too many people take anti-depressants without undergoing any sort of therapy (which is usually needed to actually recover from depression).
65208
Yes, particularly in teenagers. This is common knowledge now, and reinforces that the user of those medications should have a support network of friends and relatives that can help monitor behavior on these meds.
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The term "ADHD" is simply a label used to categorise a list of psychosocial traits that Psychiatry considers to be improper or abnormal in society. Psychiatry defines these traits as a "mental illness", and promotes it as a "disease" that requires "treatment".\n\nIt is not a "disease", despite claims or implications made by certain psychiatric or pharmaceutical organisations. There is NO credible scientific evidence that shows the existence of what constitutes "ADHD" as a biological/neurological disorder, brain abnormality or "chemical imbalance".\n\n"For a disease to exist there must be a tangible, objective physical abnormality that can be determined by a test such as, but not limited to, blood or urine test, X-Ray, brain scan or biopsy. All reputable doctors would agree: No physical abnormality, no disease. In psychiatry, no test or brain scan exists to prove that a 'mental disorder' is a physical disease. Disingenuous comparisons between physical and mental illness and medicine are simply part of psychiatry's orchestrated but fraudulent public relations and marketing campaign." Fred Baughman, MD., Neurologist & Pediatric Neurologist.\n\n"Chemical imbalance…it’s a shorthand term really, it’s probably drug industry derived… We don’t have tests because to do it, you’d probably have to take a chunk of brain out of someone - not a good idea." Dr. Mark Graff, Chair of the Committee of Public Affairs for the American Psychiatric Association. July, 2005.\n\nSuch behavioural characteristics that Psychiatry created this unscientific "disease" from are, and always have been, generally considered "normal". Now, it seems, inattention or "hyperactivity" (Hyperactivity means 'excessively active'* -- what is excessive? On whose authority?? It's ridiculous!!) is abnormal, a "mental illness".\n\nFor a rundown of the exact diagnostic criteria of "attention deficit disorder" visit: http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters/diagnosticcriteria.msnw\n\nFor information on the junkscience behind psychiatric "testing" for "ADHD" visit: http://adhdtesting.org/\n\nFor a list of what inattention COULD be attributed to (rather than some fraudulent "mental illness") visit: http://adhdparentssupportgroup.homestead.com/50conditionsmimicingADHD.html\n\nFor more information, see;\n\nhttp://groups.msn.com/psychbusters/addadhd.msnw\nhttp://groups.msn.com/psychbusters/adhdfacts.msnw\nhttp://www.adhdfraud.org/\nhttp://www.ritalindeath.com/\nhttp://cchr.org/files/7515/child_drug_EN.pdf\nhttp://www.ablechild.org/\n\n"We are not "overdrugging" or misdiagnosing" ADHD. ADHD is a total, 100 percent fraud. The many millions of schoolchildren around the world who are being drugged have no disease." Fred Baughman, Jr., M.D. Child Neurologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.\n\n"Parents are seldom told that Ritalin is ‘speed’—that it is pharmacologically classified with amphetamines, has the same effects, side effects, and risks. Yet this is well-known in the profession...." Dr. Peter R. Breggin & Ginger Ross Breggin, The War Against Children, P. 84.\n\n"...But because ADD is so vaguely defined, even for a psychiatric disorder, it is tailor-made for bogus claims. There are, as the American Psychiatric Association’s latest diagnostic manual concedes, "no laboratory tests that have been established as diagnostic" for "Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder." Richard E. Vatz, Professor, Towson State University, "Attention Deficit Delirium," The Wall Street Journal, July 27, 1994\n\n"The diagnosis of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) is entirely subjective… There is no test. It is just down to interpretation… The lines between an ADD sufferer and a healthy exuberant kid can b
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It is real, but people are being diagnoses who don't have it.  I heard one study that stated only 10% of the kids on drugs for ADHD actually had it!  Seems like everyone is just wanting to "fix" their kids with drugs.  Aren't they supposed to have a lot of energy? :)
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If you need prescription medicine then chances are you need to see a doctor.
624860
ask your doctor-the one that prescribed the medication.
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I don't entirely trust my doctor. In most instances I trust his treatment when he is sure what it is he's treating me for. But sometimes he is only guessing, or just doesn't know what's wrong. Then I don't trust his ordering a multitude of expensive tests, especially when he still doesn't find out what's wrong. I don't trust his being so hidebound in his search for a diagnosis, so cautious about going outside the box, so to speak, to find a cure.
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Using medication to feel better does not indicate abuse, and those assuming so should examine the need or reason for the medication before making any assumption.  While not always true, you generally are not abusing medication if you are taking it as directed and/or prescribed.  If you deviate from your prescription or the directions on the medication(s) you are taking, then it would be wise to consult your doctor as to whether your use of the medication(s) is healthy or would be classified as abuse.  If you are taking a medication soley for the purpose of making yourself feel better without a medical condition or reason for doing so, then you are abusing the medication.  Common sense should guide you to know for yourself whether or not you are in fact abusing your medication.
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Not at all. It depends on you diagnosis, but everyone is different and responds differently to drugs. Tricyclics are old school, but still effective. It's whatever works for you.
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The term "ADHD" is simply a label used to categorise a list of psychosocial traits that Psychiatry considers to be improper or abnormal in society. Psychiatry defines these traits as a "mental illness", and promotes it as a "disease" that requires "treatment".\n\nIt is not a "disease", despite claims or implications made by certain psychiatric or pharmaceutical organisations. There is NO credible scientific evidence that shows the existence of what constitutes "ADHD" as a biological/neurological disorder, brain abnormality or "chemical imbalance".\n\n"For a disease to exist there must be a tangible, objective physical abnormality that can be determined by a test such as, but not limited to, blood or urine test, X-Ray, brain scan or biopsy. All reputable doctors would agree: No physical abnormality, no disease. In psychiatry, no test or brain scan exists to prove that a 'mental disorder' is a physical disease. Disingenuous comparisons between physical and mental illness and medicine are simply part of psychiatry's orchestrated but fraudulent public relations and marketing campaign." Fred Baughman, MD., Neurologist & Pediatric Neurologist.\n\n"Chemical imbalance…it’s a shorthand term really, it’s probably drug industry derived… We don’t have tests because to do it, you’d probably have to take a chunk of brain out of someone - not a good idea." Dr. Mark Graff, Chair of the Committee of Public Affairs for the American Psychiatric Association. July, 2005.\n\nSuch behavioural characteristics that Psychiatry created this unscientific "disease" from are, and always have been, generally considered "normal". Now, it seems, inattention or "hyperactivity" (Hyperactivity means 'excessively active'* -- what is excessive? On whose authority?? It's ridiculous!!) is abnormal, a "mental illness".\n\nFor a rundown of the exact diagnostic criteria of "attention deficit disorder" visit: http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters/diagnosticcriteria.msnw\n\nFor information on the junkscience behind psychiatric "testing" for "ADHD" visit: http://adhdtesting.org/\n\nFor a list of what inattention COULD be attributed to (rather than some fraudulent "mental illness") visit: http://adhdparentssupportgroup.homestead.com/50conditionsmimicingADHD.html\n\nFor more information, see;\n\nhttp://groups.msn.com/psychbusters/addadhd.msnw\nhttp://groups.msn.com/psychbusters/adhdfacts.msnw\nhttp://www.adhdfraud.org/\nhttp://www.ritalindeath.com/\nhttp://cchr.org/files/7515/child_drug_EN.pdf\nhttp://www.aspeneducationgroup.com/bratcamp/bcadhd.html\nhttp://www.ablechild.org/\n\n"We are not "overdrugging" or misdiagnosing" ADHD. ADHD is a total, 100 percent fraud. The many millions of schoolchildren around the world who are being drugged have no disease." Fred Baughman, Jr., M.D. Child Neurologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.\n\n"Parents are seldom told that Ritalin is ‘speed’—that it is pharmacologically classified with amphetamines, has the same effects, side effects, and risks. Yet this is well-known in the profession...." Dr. Peter R. Breggin & Ginger Ross Breggin, The War Against Children, P. 84.\n\n"...But because ADD is so vaguely defined, even for a psychiatric disorder, it is tailor-made for bogus claims. There are, as the American Psychiatric Association’s latest diagnostic manual concedes, "no laboratory tests that have been established as diagnostic" for "Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder." Richard E. Vatz, Professor, Towson State University, "Attention Deficit Delirium," The Wall Street Journal, July 27, 1994\n\n"The diagnosis of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) is entirely subjective… There is no test. It is just down to interpretation… The lines