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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids who don't take meds are more likely to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol.  Also, they tend to suffer social isolation and low self-esteem  Stay open to meds and go to a good psychiatrist who has experience in medication combos and dosage levels beyond what a pediatrician will manage.  [/quote]
Source/reference?[/quote]

Just go to www.pubmed.com and search ADHD and substance abuse of some other drug/term. There are hundreds that discuss the increased risk.[/quote]

We've been over this.  There is no good evidence that not medicating ADHD leads to increase risk of drug abuse - the studies don't appear to compare treatments other than medical; they include cigarette smoking as drug abuse; and/or were conducted by researchers with long-standing ties to the pharmaceutical industry and a resultant huge conflict of interest.  There is *so much* conflict of interest with medical research in this area being funded by drug companies that you can't just go on pubmed - you need to look at a lot of different sources.  [/quote]

Nice blanket statement and you are wrong. No, not every study was by drug companies... Most weren't. Don't read one of three; read a bunch. FDA can only base their assessments on very specific drug trials that are hard to conduct with kids. Many drugs aren't approved for cfertain outcomes by FDA for a myriad reasons. I work with rare diseases and patients are always stuck with insurance companies not acknowledging the only drugs that work clinically because they haven't "met their trial standard", standards that are often impossible to meet. FDA only recently started recognizing the need to allow quality of life measures ( a standardized assessment of ones quality of life) as a viable outcome measure. They have yet to implement.

Of venture to guess that my kid and my family's QOL is significantly higher on medication.[/quote]

We're talking here about the specific claim that ADHD meds reduce the risk of drug addition and school failure as compared to other, non-drug approaches.  Please provide the study that demonstrates that - which is 1) NOT co-authored by someone with demonstrable financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry (so that knocks out Biederman and many others) and 2) compares stimulant treatment of ADHD with other non-pharmaceutical treatment methods, instead of meds v nothing.  Maybe that exists?  [/quote]

You also have to exclude Barkley, since he gets $$ from the ADHD drug companies. [/quote]

(btw same PP, not trying to sock puppet)[/quote]

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