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News U Can Use: ADHD Meds Gone Wrong

By Ellen and Rachel on February 13, 2012

A prominent child psychiatrist raises questions about our approach to attention problems in children. Does the accepted dogma about stimulant medications stand up? Learn why he’s so certain we’ve gone off in the wrong direction.

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Ellen and Rachel are two old friends and “expert” mamas—one a pediatrician and one a family therapist—with fifty years of parenting experience between them.

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