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problems justifies closer public and professional scrutiny. Available research does not conclusively support the idea of a widespread over diagnosis of ADHD across the country. However, there are clear indications of over diagnosis and a dangerous trend of stimulant medication prescriptions in a growing number of communities. The fact that these problems are not universal should not serve to dismiss concerns for communities in which children receive an ADHD diagnosis at remarkably high rates. Careful investigation into the trend of ADHD over diagnosis and overuse of drug therapy is necessary to develop appropriate methods for improving ADHD care.

ADHD clinicians reach a diagnosis decision using different protocols. Some use a battery of expensive tests, while others merely use rating scales or go through a checklist. Understand that it is entirely possible for your child to receive an ADHD diagnosis, when he or she is just a high-energy kid who is easily distracted.

Parents of authentically diagnosed ADHD children have to worry about side effects and potential long-term implications of FDA Schedule II stimulant drug prescriptions. For each misdiagnosed child comes the risk of inappropriate ADHD medication prescriptions. Parents whose children do not have ADHD should not have to worry about children falling victim to the avarice of ADHD clinicians and pharmaceutical companies.

The stakes are too high for the ADHD over diagnosis trend to continue.

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