| Have you been having a few problems recently in | | | | dollars a year on these drugs, the answer would seem |
| keeping an appointment? If you have trouble keeping | | | | to be a resounding yes. The reality in the average |
| to the speed limit or multi task continuously at work, | | | | ADHD family tells a different story! Although the |
| this could be one or two of the symptoms of adult | | | | figures of deaths of children who have been on the |
| ADHD. If your child or teen has ADHD, you too could | | | | ADHD drugs such as Adderall, Ritalin and Vyvanse, |
| be just one of the 25% of the parents who are likely | | | | have been tiny, there is a suspicion that many deaths |
| to suffer from this condition. Researchers have now | | | | go unreported. The most alarming attention deficit |
| established a strong genetic link. Attention deficit | | | | hyperactivity disorder statistics come from a study |
| hyperactivity disorder statistics show too that couples | | | | carried out by by Madelyn Gould of the New York |
| who have ADHD children are twice as likely to seek a | | | | State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University in |
| divorce or separation as the problems associated with | | | | New York City which studied the sudden deaths of |
| hyperactivity and inattentiveness creates extra | | | | 564 children. These deaths were caused by multiple |
| tensions within the family unit. | | | | factors but the children who had been on ADHD drugs |
| Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder statistics | | | | were 7 times more likely to suffer a fatality than those |
| recently show that up to 5% of the children aged | | | | children who were not on drugs. |
| between 6 and 17 are suffering from this mental | | | | To medicate or not to medicate? Many parents have |
| disorder. This data came from parents of some | | | | to face this question and most will find out what the |
| 23,000 children who were telephoned by the CDC. | | | | alternatives are and what the advantages and |
| There seems to be a steady increase of around 3-5% | | | | disadvantages are. As regards ADHD homeopathic |
| a year of children with ADHD. But the actual attention | | | | cures, there are no side effects, health risks or even |
| deficit hyperactivity disorder statistics could actually be | | | | any risk of addiction. Costs too are more reasonable. |
| much higher as many cases go undiagnosed. In | | | | Also behavioral therapy has been shown to be the |
| addition, between 30% to 60% of children who are | | | | best and most effective treatment of all in the long |
| untreated will risk carrying the condition into adulthood. | | | | term. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder statistics |
| Is medication the answer? According to the | | | | on this type of treatment are now published and well |
| pharmaceutical companies who have made billions of | | | | known although not by the pharmaceutical companies! |