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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I do agree that in 50-100 years, we will consider the current treatment of ADHD to be very backward.  The truth is we don’t really know what causes it or why it manifests differently in different people or why different drugs work differently for different people.  All we can do now is treat  symptoms largely through trial and error.   I expect they’ll know a lot more in 100 years and will have much better treatments.  But I live right now so we deal with what we’ve got.[/quote]
Thank you for this thoughtful educated response. I keep asking my psychiatrist about the recent developments in ADHD research, and according to her,  there are no break through or even major advancement in the field yet.[/quote]

I have a science PhD and maybe this isn't obvious to people outside of research, but the only "advancements in the field" as it relates to ADHD are going to be drugs, drugs and more drugs. That's because all research needs to be funded by somebody, and it's expensive. Unless a pharmaceutical company is footing the bill (with the protections that patents provide them so they can recoup their costs) then it will never happen. Even research that is "government funded" is, especially in the US, essentially funded by a large corporation behind the scenes - through political donations and very loose and free relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and related government organizations (read: someone works a few years here, a few years there, then back here again).

If you accept that the root cause (and therefore real solution) could be something related to nutrition, environmental toxicity, gut flora, or something else for which the discovery of a link wouldn't necessarily yield benefits to a corporation (and would indeed perhaps actually reduce profits dramatically if people were to stop with all the medications) then you need to start looking for those links on your own. They will never come from the government.[/quote]

I am the PP you are replying to; I have a PhD too (in social sciences though) and I disagree with your conclusions. My phone is dying so I’ll need to respond later.[/quote]

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