1. Stimulants - Helpful or Harmful?
The treatments for ADHD and ADD include stimulant medication, non-stimulant medication and behavioral therapy. The majority of children who are affected by ADHD or ADD rely on stimulant medications, rather than non stimulant medications or behavioral therapy to treat their disabilities. ... Russell Barkley, a physiologist and the author of ADHD and the Nature of Self-Control, suggests that before jumping into stimulant drugs, parents of children with ADD or ADHD try behavioral therapy (49). ...
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