Quotes about Adult Add from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
Email to a friend
 "Alan Zametkin, a leading researcher on ADHD, has become quite critical of what he has called "a cottage industry of adult ADD" (Kolata, 1996).
In the late 1980s the Church of Scientology launched a major media campaign against the use of Ritalin with children. Although the controversial church remained an outsider in the debate, for several years its members voiced public criticism about ADHD (Leffers, 1997)."- Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "ADHD, on the other hand, is a pseudo disease reserved for misbehaving children who typically grow out of the behavior as adults (although we are currently witnessing a drug company-inspired campaign to convince perhaps minions of potential customers that they may suffer from "Adult ADD"). Autism is lifelong and heartbreaking; ADHD is temporary and annoying (although many adults may have various motives, including personal or vocational failures or difficulties, to believe that they "are" or have "always been" ADHD). Yet for both, something clearly is going on."- Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.) |
 "Lilly, too, had its own entrant into the adult add field. As one Lilly researcher explained to an APA audience, "Continuous symptom relief is the key message. 'In the evening and into the morning.' That reaches families where they live — it's not just about getting through the school day."
Where the old ADD pitch had once been about behavior and performance, now the tribal custodians, from CHADD to the APA, began to introduce the notion of job productivity as a barometer of the disorder and its treatment. An article in Attention!, CHADD's member magazine, summed it up."- Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "The author then listed a number of Web links for the adult add sufferer. They were almost all work-related, ranging from Lotus.com, the software giant, to Inspiration.com, which is a "graphical outliner that enables users to flip back and forth between a flow chart and an outline." To drive home the urgency of the disorder to physicians, companies like McNeil came up with ways to sensitize reluctant prescribers." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "Of particular interest to researchers studying the heritability of the disorder are the d-4 dopamine receptor and dopamine transporter genes," an article on adult add in Attention! noted. "Both play a role in the functioning of the frontal lobe ... the secretary of the brain." Of course, all tribes change. It is how they survive. For medical tribes, the introduction of new science information is a good thing. But when a medical tribe is largely driven by pharma, as in the case of ADD, something else is going on as well. Appetite for product is expanded." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "It was not a test so much as it was a series of "profiles" of the adult add sufferer who might benefit from pharmacology. As Dr. Calvin Sumner, an ADD expert who just happened to be hovering near the Concerta exhibit explained, "ADHD is not a disease, it's an organizational disorder. But it's not about 'getting your act together.'" Then what is it about? "What's working is putting clear boundaries around what it is, how it manifests. It's identifying the habits of [people's] lives that can be treated. For example, there is the woman who needs twenty hours to prepare for a brief instead of five." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) |
 "Complicating Factors in Adult ADD: The Risk of Abuse
Given the publicity surrounding ADD and the complex demands of contemporary life, the upsurge in adult add diagnoses is not surprising. Many adults feel overwhelmed by their situations, and many no doubt have experienced problems with focus and attention since childhood. In the past, however, if they were not clearly hyperactive, such problems were most often attributed to laziness, bad parenting, or just a general deficiency of character."- Lawrence H. Diller, Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill (Get the book.) |
 "Modern Life or adult add?"
Like many media articles on medical conditions, the U.S. News &World Report piece featured the harrowing personal stories of sufferers, the gritty anecdotes from "real" people that make journalism live and breathe."- Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.) "If the promotion of adult add continues as aggressively as it has started, and the lifelong drug use that it encourages occurs, exploding use of these pills will continue to make Shire shareholders very, very happy for a long time to come. What long-term value the drugs might offer those actually taking them is less clear. Many of the clinical trials have been relarively short and poorly run, though several good long-term trials are currently under way." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.) "The first AMA briefing was specifically about ADDand two of the key topics to be discussed were adult add and medications. The sponsor of this AMA media briefing was Shire, who supplied the AMA with an "unrestricted educational grant" for the event. The second event was the AMA's science writers' conference, billed as bringing journalists news about the "most urgent medical issues" of the day. At the top of the list of topics in the email alert was ADD. The keynote speaker on ADD was a paid consultant for Shire, who had also done work for five other drug companies." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.) "Featuring the face of a beautiful young blue-eyed white woman, the magazine cover story offered readers a scoop on the latest from medical science: "Living with adult add. New hope for coping with the distraction and anxiety." The eight-page article inside seemed to pay little attention to the wider scientific controversy about the nature and treatment of ADD, and read more like an excited industry promotion of the next big market than the serious investigative journalism for which the magazine has a well-deserved reputation." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.) |
FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.
TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalPedia.com
This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008, 2009 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.
ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of NaturalPedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.
| Email announcements powered by Campaign Enterprise from ArialSoftware.com |
