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Non-Drug Alternatives for ADHD Proven Effective

Posted on August 19, 2008

Contrary to popular thinking, medications for child attention deficit disorder (ADHD) are not always the best first-line treatment. Instead, parents should seek out behavioral treatments according to new research presented this past weekend at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association. That s because while medications address ADHD symptoms such as restlessness and fidgeting in a classroom, they don t address the impairments caused by ADHD. Those include a lack of successful interactions with peers, deficits in reading and math skills, and difficult relations with pare...

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