Tough on Drugs

Parents, doctors, and others have wondered whether common treatments for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) inadvertently predispose adolescents to future drug abuse. The answer may depend on the age at which treatment is started and how long it lasts, say the authors of a new brain-imaging and behavioral study conducted in animals.

Posted on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...124538.htm

Personally, I don't think that ADHD needs to be treated with medication as much as it needs to be treated with better parenting and education styles. I think a lot of the issue is that children are so stimulated these days that when they are forced to sit down and learn they don't know what to do with themselves. By finding better approaches to teaching and ways to decrease the amount of stimulation by tv and games at home children would be perfectly fine.