Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School

By ALAN SCHWARZ

Published: October 9, 2012

CANTON, Ga. — When Dr. Michael Anderson hears about his low-income patients struggling in elementary school, he usually gives them a taste of some powerful medicine: Adderall.

The pills boost focus and impulse control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Although A.D.H.D is the diagnosis Dr. Anderson makes, he calls the disorder “made up” and “an excuse” to prescribe the pills to treat what he considers the children’s true ill — poor academic performance in inadequate schools.

“I don’t have a whole lot of choice,” said Dr. Anderson, a pediatrician for many poor families in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta. “We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.”
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Chip Conley: Emotional Equations

Though we might not be in control of every aspect of our environment, we are in control of how we react to our environment....

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Alpha-Stim in Australia

 A video from the Australian division of Alpha-Stim.  In Australia, Alpha-Stim is sold over-the-counter. Why it is still a prescription device in the U.S. has more to do with politics of our medical system than it does a realistic account of the safety and benefits of cranial electrical stimulation.

“We can sell Alpha-Stim® technology over-the-counter in every nation but the USA. We have introduced the Alpha-Stim® SCS initially in Europe, Canada, and Australia, and we are beginning to market it in Asia and most of the rest of the world. The product is safer than aspirin, so there is no reason Alpha-Stim® technology shouldn’t be sold over-the-counter. Unfortunately, the regulatory process in the United States is so expensive and difficult that I don’t see that happening here in the near future." 

- Daniel L. Kirsch, Ph.D, F.A.I.S of Electromedical Products International, Inc. (EPI)

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