Psychiatry What psychologists and psychiatrists need to know about ADHD and stimulants英文电子书.pdf

What Psychologists and Therapists Need To Know Peter R. Breggin About ADHD and Stimulants Stimulant In the United States, non -medical therapists- especially drugs like psychologists and counsellors- playa pivotal role in decisions Ritalin about the appropriateness of prescribing stimulant medication damage the to children. Advocates of stimulant medication frequently try brains of to educate school mental health professionals to make them more enthusiastic about diagnosing Attention Deficit/ growmg Hyperactivity Di sorder (ADHD) and encouraging medication. children and Most recommendations for stimulant drugs in the United suppress States originate from schools. School psychologists and behaviour counsellors therefore need a thorough understanding of the irespective of mechanism of action of stimulants, as well as their many diagnosis or adverse effects. Until recently, most of the information has been any supposed generated by individuals with strong vested interests in what disorder. This may be called the ADHD/stimulant lobby. paper appeals As a psychiatrist, my own research into the mechanism of to counsellors action and adverse effects of drugs dates back several decades. and others to I first wrote extensively about ADHD and stimulant drugs in Toxic Psychiatry (1993) and then again in Talking Back to protest about Ritalin (1998). In November 1999 I was invited by the National the systematic Institutes of Health (NIH) to be the scientific expert on Risks drugging of