News tagged with 'ADD'

Ron Motley is receiving the AAJ's 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award next month in Vancouver. The IB partner and head of Motley Rice revealed some of his motivations in a Frontline interview.

Students in this University of Maryland study could not go without the Internet for 24 hours without showing signs of addiction withdrawl similar to alcohol or drugs.

Internet addiction is increasingly being recognized as a mental health problem that can be identified in adolescents - those who are depressed, have social phobias and ADHD are at-risk, and therapists say intervention should start early.

ADHD may have less to do with willful defiance or inattention and more to do with lacking dopamine in the brain, specifically in the areas that govern reward and motivation, this study finds.

Calls coming into poison control centers around the country jumped 76 percent over a seven-year period, reporting teens having a bad reaction to drugs used to treat ADHD, this study finds. That jump roughly corresponds with the sharp rise in the prescription use of these stimulants in children and teens.

reStart Addiction Recovery, the first program of its kind to help Internet addicts, is now open in Fall City, Washington, near Redmond (home of Microsoft) and Seattle.

Young people in Eastern Iowa appear to be overdosing on prescription drugs for ADHD. About 2.5 million kids are on the stimulants, with use increasing, despite a recently published article that suggests a link between the medications and sudden cardiac death. 

A newly released study suggests there may be a link between the use of stimulant medications prescribed to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, known as ADHD, and sudden cardiac death in healthy children. But the FDA says due to limited data, children should not stop taking these drugs.

When seven-year-old Gabriel Myers hanged himself in a foster care home, Florida immediately conducted an audit on how many kids, like Gabriel, were on mind-altering drugs.  Up to three times the general population are put on psychiatric drugs with the numbers increasing to one-in-three among teens in group homes.  

ADHD drugs are powerful stimulants given to more than 4 million children, but do they work?  This five year published study says yes, but other multi-year studies question the drugs' effectiveness and safety. Generation Rx, a documentary, asks the kinds of questions parents need to before they put their children on ADHD drugs. 

Nearly one in ten youth who participated in this survey, is addicted to video gaming.  Symptoms are not much different than a gambling addiction say researchers, and very little is known about this new area of psychological study, except gamers also tend to have attention deficit problems. 

Seroquel litigation is heating up and internal company documents show AstraZeneca cherry picked what information it wanted released about the antipsychotic, while downplaying any link to diabetes.

While the anti-drunk driving organization Mothers Against Drunk Driving has had an impact over the last two decades on reducing DUIs and saving lives on the road, critics now say it's zero tolerance policy amounts to a New Prohibition that extends to the social drinker.

He may jog and play basketball but President-elect Obama has not only the nation's health care to fix but his own personal health challenge. Like one in five Americans, he smokes cigarettes and quitting has proven elusive over the years.

Researchers find that as many as 400,000 adolescents are playing with medications such as Vicodin and Oxycontin to get high. The best way to  treat these teens?  With an extended treatment  of detoxification medication, this study finds.