Clinics in Mother and Child Health

Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 104 E University Ave, 110 Greenbank lane, Youngsville La. 70592, USA

Publications

• Research Article   
  Alternative Solutions for Addressing ADHD and EB Problems
  Author(s): John Jordan*
  
  Objective: This article adds to current literature about alternatives to treating ADHD without the administration of pharmaceutical drugs. An estimated 9.4 percent of American children aged 6-17 were diagnosed with ADHD and 62 % of those children were prescribed pharmaceutical drugs to treat behavioral and emotional difficulties, according to a 2016 national parent survey that the CDC released. Today in 2020, about 3 in 4 US children receive treatment of some sort for ADHD, whether medicinal or behavioral (CDC, 2020). Many parents choose to avoid giving their children prescription medicines, leaving their children untreated. If ADHD or other behavior problems are left unattended, there can be consequences that are irreversible. Current popular treatment methods are suspected by many parents to be dangerous, believing their prescribed youth a.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2090-7214.20.17.360

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