ADHD 'Fakers' Routinely Fool Doctors to Get Drugs
Newswise (press release)
Ranseen, a psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at UK, performs specialized testing included in evaluations of adults referred for ADHD. ...


ADHD, Stimulants, Children and Sudden Death
PsychCentral.com
Imagine if your child was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADHD) and was started on a course of stimulant psychiatric ...
Stimulants and Sudden Death in YouthAm J Psychiatry (subscription)

Sudden Death and Use of Stimulant Medications in YouthsAm J Psychiatry (subscription)

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I'm writing this from the Press Room in the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, where the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association is being held. On my schedule this morning was a lecture on genetics in psychiatry by Kenneth Kendler, but once I got there a line was snaking its way into the hallway and I was out of luck. So I decided to go to one of Shire's product theaters. You may recall that recently the APA voted to phase out industry-sponsored symposia (ISS), but they