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Medication rates high for ADHD sufferers – Published on JMU (Liverpool UK), by Amy Cole, Oct 19, 2015.

Medication for Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD] is being heavily prescribed across Merseyside, with statistics showing Wirral ranking second highest in the country … //

… Dr Tony Lloyd from the Liverpool-based ADHD Foundation says that medication isn’t always the best option and can cause reliance on a pill for a chronic condition.
He told JMU Journalism: “Sadly, in most parts of the country, medication is the first and only line of treatment.”
Blame is quick to fall on doctors for overprescribing and not offering alternative treatments and therapies … //

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Related Links for alternative treatments:

• about a teal pumpkin, on The Atlanta Journal Constitution AJC, Oct 20, 2015: … Some children with ADHD or autism also have certain dietary restrictions that prohibit eating candy, especially in the quantity involved around Halloween …;
• If You Love Someone With ADHD, There Are 15 Things You Need To Know, on A plus, by Lisa Winter, Oct 19, 2015:
• Bobby Previte Quartet to play Quinn’s in Beacon, on Almanax Weekly (of Hudson Valy/Ulster), by John Burdick, Oct 19, 2015: … Much of this music makes a cognitive case that ADHD is not a deficiency at all, but rather an alternative and often-more-relevant mode of connection and awareness …;
• Houston Psychotherapist Presents Alternative Solution to U.S. Mental Illness Crisis, on Business Wire, Sept 30, 2015;
• Biofeedback provides alternative treatment to neurological disorders, on The Blue Banner, by Timbi Shepherd, Sept 23, 2015: as diagnosis rates for mental disorders such as autism and ADHD are continuing to rise, alternative medical treatments are becoming a popular method to treat patients without medication …;
• Is better nutrition, not drugs, the cure for ADHD? on The Southern Illinoisan, Sept 20, 2015;
• Project Evo as an alternative treatment for ADHD, on Christian Today, by Wendy Lemeric, Aug 21, 2015;
• MindAlive: A New Alternative Treatment for ADHD? on ADDitude, by Devon Frye, Aug 14, 2015: This audio-visual entrainment device is intended for treating ADHD, autism, and other mental health concerns; more solutions on ADDitude; http://www.additudemag.com/alternative-adhd-treatment.html
• Israeli App Offers Alternative to ADD and ADHD Medications, on The Tower Mag, by ISRAEL21c, Sept 4, 2015;
• on HealthGrades:
  1): 9 Signs of Adult ADHD, by William C. Lloyd III, July 11, 2015: ADHD is commonly considered a childhood disorder. But a number of kids with ADHD still have it when they grow up. Making matters worse, it can be harder to diagnose ADHD in adults, and many adults don’t even know they have it. Would you recognize the possible signs of ADHD in an adult?
  2): The Positive Side of ADHD, by Linda Wasmer Andrews, Nov 2, 2014: you hear a lot about the challenges of living with ADHD. What you don’t hear discussed as often is the positive side of the condition. Yet the beneficial aspects of ADHD—energy, spontaneity, creativity, flexibility—are just as real as the negative ones;
• DSM – An Expose of Psychiatry’s Bible, 69.16 min, uploaded on YouTube by PeoplePower Television, Aug 9, 2014 … the American Psychiatric Association’s “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (DSM) is the profession’s bible of diagnosis. Its fifth edition, set for May, radically broadens the understanding of what constitutes abnormal behavior - and already is generating controversy. Gary Greenberg, a practicing psychotherapist and author of The Book of Woe, offers an exposé of DSM-5, revealing what he calls the deeply flawed process /(exemples) by which mental disorders are invented and uninvented and arguing that this new edition will encourage increased diagnosis and increased prescriptions — including medications whose consequences aren’t well-understood. Dr. Greenberg is joined in conversation by Dr. Philip Cushman, a core faculty member in the Psy.D. program at Seattle’s Antioch University;
• find a big choice of websites by the keywords ADHD alternative treatments by Google Images-search;
• on en.wikipedia: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD; ADHD disambiguation; Carol Tavris; Committee for Skeptical Inquiry;

Other Links:

Capitalism, democratic socialism and the Democratic debate, on Intrepid Report, by Ben Tanosborn, Oct 19, 2015 (about next US presidenbt);

Blair promised UK support to US in Iraq 1 year before invasion – report, on Russia Today RT, Oct 19, 2015;

It’s Official, Blair Misled the Public and the Chilcot Inquiry, on Dissident Voice, by Felicity Arbuthnot, Oct 19, 2015;

We’re Under Water, Germany Shows Signs of Strain from Mass of Refugees, on Spiegel Online International, by Matthias Bartsch, Jan Friedmann, Hubert Gude, Horand Knaup, Ralf Neukirch, Conny Neumann, René Pfister, Christian Reiermann, Michael Sauga, Christoph Schult and Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt, Oct 17, 2015 (Photo Gallery): the unceasing influx of refugees is creating tremendous uncertainty in Germany. Many towns and cities are calling for help and the government appears to be rudderless. Pressure is mounting for Chancellor Angela Merkel to act;

Who needs truth in Cartoon Amerika? on Intrepid Report, by Philip A Farruggio, Oct 16, 2015: German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote: “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as being self-evident”;

Poetry of Mankh – Bend Your Mind-Vision Like an Escher Graphic, on Axis of Logic, by Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), Oct 15, 2015;

Website: Welcome to Europe w2eu.info: Independent information for refugees and migrants coming to Europe.