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I want parents to understand there are misconceptions
afoot about the stimulants they are not addictive as prescribed unless
you inject or inhale them
they do not produce aggression and they didn't cause Columbine
they are in fact able to reduce aggressive and antisocial behavior
they do not cause seizures you have to swallow the whole bottle
so even children with seizure disorders can take these drugs safely
they do not cost tics or Tourettes unless you are already are prone
to tics or Tourettes and then they may bring them out and make them worse even
then
only in about 30 percent of the cases the remaining cases do not
experience a worsening of them of their tics and so children with ADHD and tics can take
these drugs safely
as long as they're not wanted to 30 percent that makes it worse and by the
way the worsening as temporary
stop the drug the Texaco back to their baseline within a week
are we overdosing ADHD children in North America
absolutely not if you look at the prevalent to the disorder it's seven and
a half percent
if you look at how many children are taking medication it's between four and
five percent
which means you're missing a third of all children
and by the way ninety percent of all adults with ADHD
are not treated so are we using more medication than ever before
yes is it scandalous no what's your problem
we still have people who don't have access to care and you aren't being
treated for their disorder
and that's the real problem as our surgeon general pointed out
not overtreatment in the United States or appear
is there a risk it later substance abuse from the stimulants
your own CBC ran a program on marketplace the marketplace
know what is called rate them over that little blonde hottie that used to date
your member parliament
I just wanna make sure I got the right program at
everybody knows what I say that all her yet we know
okay I have a bone to pick with that because they were in fact
deceitful and their creation their program especially with our
medical school but nevertheless there in a program
claiming that stimulants can predispose children to *** abuse
nicotine and other drugs of abuse later in life if your children took them
this is based upon a single study done by Nadine Lambert in San Francisco
nadine study has many many flaws in it not the least of which she never control
for conduct disorder which is the biggest predictor of drug abuse among
ADHD children and when you control for that there is no link
between being treated with the stimulant and abusing
any drug how do I know that because 17 you can correct this line
17 studies including my own have now shown
no relationship between length of time you take a stimulant throughout
childhood
and risk it any abuse in adulthood so there's a box score
17 21 what did the CBC focus on the one
why because we all know now that televised
journalism is a former entertainment not
a former information that they go after the scandal
the underbelly the sensational side
and they ignore anything that does not fit that preconceived idea and not
exactly what the CBC did
which was I think a travesty of journalism to the improve academic
achievement
no not at the start but we now have several studies including one published
a week ago
that show that if you stay in your medication at least two years or more
we do start to see an uptick in academic achievement skills but prior to that
time what the drugs are doing is improving your productivity
the amount of work you do but there's no knowledge in a pill
so why would you know your multiplication tables when you take your
concert or when you didn't know them the day before
right but what the drugs do is to make you available for learning
and if you stay available for learning over a long enough period of time you do
learn more
but not in the short run and then I mentioned to tear a I'm not gonna go
over that
because I've already mentioned it but it is the non stimulant on the market right
now and as I said we will have another one
later on two very good run especially for kids who have anxiety
or checks or OCD or insomnia
or other sleep problems