ADD / ADHD Medication

Should your child go on ADD / ADHD medication? This is a hard decision that millions of parents around the world are facing. With a child failing at school and disruptive at home, isn't medication the best answer?

That is something that parents must decide for themselves by weighing up the information about the medications and by assessing their own domestic situation. This page however is deliberately against ADD / ADHD medication so that parents can see the other side of the medication question. Many doctors and educationists recommend medication without understanding what constant medication does to a growing child.

Before you start ADHD medications consider what you are trying to achieve. The medications do not treat ADD / ADHD, they only reduce the symptoms. When the medication stops, the symptoms come back. How long are you going to drug your child?