What to do When Kids Go off Their Meds: Brain-based Learning Strategies for ADD/ADHD
Brain-based learning strategies for helping hyperactive kids. Teacher resources and parenting tips to help control ADD when kids stop taking stimulant drugs. A likely scenario given the recent publicity about heart-related problems linked to Ritalin.
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Steven Nissen, a prominent Cleveland Ohio Cardiologist recently prodded the FDAs Advisory committee to put a black box warning on Ritalin, warning of potential heart danger. Why? From 1999 to 2003, 81 deaths and 54 nonfatal cardiovascular events such as heart attacks have possible links to Ritalin and similar drugs.
During the same period 78 million prescriptions were written for children up to the age of 18. Today two million kids a month take these drugs.
These are startling statistics to put it mildly! Assuming Nissen is correct, Ritalin is a pretty dangerous method of improving brain-based learning.
Now before I go any further with this story, please do not take a child off their ADD medication or suggest to a parent that such should be done. I am not a medical doctor. I do not prescribe. If you want to look into lowering a dosage or stopping a childs medications, you must talk to a doctor.
What does this story mean in terms of ADD behavior at home and in the classroom? How does it affect brain
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