Have you taken your teen son to a doctor who believes they have ADHD because they might be a little unorganized, has a messy backpack, won’t listen or has an outburst? If so, they might think the ONLY solution is some type of drug you can’t even pronounce? Such “medications” include quillivant XR, vyvanse, Intuniv, kapvay. Huh?
Do parents put too much trust into a doctor? Why do a lot of parents think their child is the problem and not them? Are the problems stemming from the environment the child is in or from their past? How is it affecting them? There is more to the story it seems.
From the book, The Myth of the A.D.D. Child, the author, Thomas Armstrong writes,
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“It’s precisely because the A.D.D. label encompasses such as heterogeneous group of kids that we need a wide range of interventions and strategies to help them become successful people. However, many A.D.D. proponents want to exert control over interventions (just as they maintain control over the behavior of children) by invoking the medical model. This tactic makes it “dangerous” to go beyond the realm of medically approved treatments. Researchers fear losing funding sources if they stray too far from the accepted treatments.
Armstrong then mentions Beverly Rubik, director of the Center for Frontier Sciences at Temple University. She says,
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“There’s a code of behavior in the scientific community that almost prohibits people from looking too far from the mainstream. If they do, they suffer extraordinary obstacles—they can’t publish in peer-reviewed journals, funding is reduced or eliminated, they’re ostracized. They’re regarded as ....
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