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An article in the Boston Herald about a football player with ADD whose academic as well as athletic lives were saved when he was diagnosed and medicated.
“It still bothered me that I had to take a pill (Adderall) just to be normal like everyone else,” Tassinari admitted. “But I was glad in that this seems to be helping me.”
Interesting to find some positive coverage re: medication for a change.
Here’s a quick PubMed update before I take my computer back apart… (pictures to come too)…
Anxiety states: a review of conceptual and treatment issues.
Advances in alternative pharmacotherapy of ADHD.
“The larger effect sizes we calculated for stimulant ADHD medications, compared to nonstimulants or the novel stimulant modafinil, leads us to conclude that amphetamine and methylphenidate based stimulant medications are more effective in treating symptoms of ADHD,” said Stephen V. Faraone, Ph.D., lead researcher and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University. “Our results should help physicians who have had to rely on qualitative comparisons among published trials, along with their own clinical experience, to draw conclusions about an ADHD medication’s relative efficacy because of largely absent direct head-to-head drug comparisons.”
FYI
(Via Yahoo! Finance.)
Psychiatric Drug Use by Children Reviewed By The FDA:
“There is no question we need to do long-term clinicaltrials with kids and psychiatric drugs.” He said the companies, the FDA, and the NIMH should pool their money and establish those trials.
Interesting article on the current state of psychotropic medications used to treat AD/HD, Depression, and Anxiety and their efficacy with and effects on children.
(Via Psychiatric Times.)
Boca grad student creates natural study focus pill:
Spanish River High School alumnus Justin Hertzberg wanted a natural alternative to the prescription drugs that his college peers used — often illegally — as study aids.
So the 25-year-old University of Miami graduate student teamed up with friend Jason Neufeld to create a nonprescription pill that they say increases concentration with natural ingredients such as green tea, guarana, caffeine and vitamin B.
(Via Palm Beach Post.)
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