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Can You Make It Without ADHD Medication?

ADHD medication can help immensely when used properly, but some patients prefer to try alternative treatments or avoid medications for another reason. Use these guidelines to determine if it's the right path for you or your child.

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  1. “…needing medication is not a crime.” The requirement to be drug tested before receiving stimulant ADHD medication certainly makes the patient FEEL like it is a crime.

  2. You’re my hero asleeplogan! Come on Additude we’re not stupid. That definitely is shady, shoddy, and GREEDY journalism. I can’t take anything you say seriously when I’m aware that Big Pharma is paying even part of your paycheck. So unethical.

  3. Why, why, WHY can’t articles like this acknowlege that for many people, medications simply don’t work? “For some people with ADHD, none of the approved medications improve symptoms.” That should be the first sentence in the article. I’ve seen figures up to 30%, though Russell Barkley says it’s under 10%. Whatever the correct number is, we are real people, and I wish the ADHD press would acknowlege our existence. Treating our ADHD without medications is not some option we are choosing. There IS no other option. I would LOVE to be able to take a pill, and have some improvement. Such a pill seems not to exist.

    1. Why, why, and why?
      Because this site as most others are secretly funded by a conglomerate of pharmaceutical companies.

      1. ADDitude does accept paid advertising from pharmaceutical companies, however we do not do so in secret and none of our advertisers impacts our editorial coverage in any way. We adhere to strict journalistic guidelines regarding editorial, which remains independent from advertising.

      2. *Anything* less than a disclaimer heading each article, containing the aforementioned and HIGHLY relevant conflict of interest, is honestly just shady, shoddy, and downright malevolent journalism, in all honesty. Instead of standing apart, and above, the misinformation and deception perpetuated by the industry, you choose you make yourselves happily right at home among the rest.

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