Bad Medicine: Psychiatric medicine
Copyright policy )Bad Medicine: Psychiatric medicine
A recent article in the Guardian claims that ADHD is undertreated and urges doctors to prescribe more psychoactive medication to our children.1 I personally found the article to be deeply disappointing and superficial. Children do have issues with hyperactivity and inattention, just like children have specific issues with reading (as I did as a child), but these traits are so ubiquitous as to represent simply a spectrum of normality. We must support children with specific problems but labelling children for life and prescribing psychoactive medication at key developmental periods is just not supported by the evidence.2,3 But unfortunately modern psychiatry …
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Humans, Central Nervous System Stimulants, Practice Patterns, Physicians', Child, Drug Prescriptions, Drug Utilization, United Kingdom
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Humans, Central Nervous System Stimulants, Practice Patterns, Physicians', Child, Drug Prescriptions, Drug Utilization, United Kingdom
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