Glaxo Sued Over Drug Claims

I was very pleased by this!

I have worked with a few people who had taken this and it is very very difficult to come off it. I recently heard that a client is finally clear of it after many years. I raised a quiet glass (of tea!) to ccelebrate.

Any one out there got any news of the latest child drug for ADHD thats out today?

I would be interested to know what its rate of success was compared to a placebo.
Cheers Coliin

Hi Colin

Here's a couple of articles on the new ADHD drug

Article One Interesting point on the importance of nutrition here as well.

Article Two

Graham

Yes, I've heard reports from various sources on the effectiveness of Omega 3 & 6's in high doses for kids with behvioural problems. Does anyone have direct experience of this?

This is an old article: Hyperactivity 'just high spirits' about how there may be a lot of over diagnosis of ADHD and autism.

I was interested to read Graham's Article Two - I did wonder if the child in that article hadn't simply gone through the process that used to be called growing up!

Interesting point Mike. Many more boys than girls are diagnosed as ADHD and with autism.

We know that girls' and boys' brains develop diffrently (generally speaking). Boys are more spatial and action orientated and tend to be a lot more physical and into thier immediete environment.

Girls tend to be more 'social' and relationship-focussed earlier than boys and less physically impulsive.

Yet boys and girls are educated in the same way. Could it be that the education system favours female learning patterns (at least early on) and as a result boys are forced into being what they are not. Maybe true ADHD is rarer than we suppose and is also another term for 'boyhood.'

Mark.

It's certainly true, in the UK, that there are far more women teachers than men involved in teaching young children. In 2002 the Teacher Training Agency aimed to raise the ratio to 1 man to 5 women, from about 1:8!

Research has shown that women teachers are more likely to interpret boys boisterous behaviour as aggressive or aberrant, when boys considered it to be playful.

Roger Elliott wrote:Yes, I've heard reports from various sources on the effectiveness of Omega 3 & 6's in high doses for kids with behvioural problems. Does anyone have direct experience of this?

Never been involved in treatment of kids but the psychiatrist where i used to work would sometimes choose to prescribe omega-3's instead of SSRI's in cases of depression, and sometimes even when the patients refering GP had suggested SSRI's.
I have bought Andrew Stolls book on the omega-3's but i havent read it yet.