Zoe Sofia: I recently did a video about ADHD and just two days later, breaking news hit the media I mean this thing is international it is everywhere. There is a headline’s in every newspaper magazine and you need this all over the internet. So I wanted to do a follow up video on ADHD and tell you the news, so if it has anything to do with you or any one you know you want here this.
Now, I wanted just start of with reading through the headlines that are in all these different news paper they are from everywhere. And let me just read down the list.
Periodicals for ADHD care review, attention deficit drugs questioned. Report ADHD drugs may stop growth long term effectiveness unknown. Vitalan of no long term benefit study finds. Drugs for ADHD not to answer. Controversy of our effectiveness of ADHD treatment, ADHD medication may start growth; ADHD drugs have no long term effects. ADHD drugs not a solution for a long run treatment. The truth about treatments for ADHD, ADHD drugs under fire. ADHD drugs stops kids growth. Doping the young the ADHD Delimar and long term use of vitalan ineffective and may start childrens growth.
So what this needs is all about is a study that was funded by NIH, the National Institute of Health and it was a study of that looked at 600 childrens since there are early 90’s and it was just long term study. Now the first year of that has show that ADHD drugs where effective, so this got an actually spread this and in causes real big spike and prescription drugs for ADHD. But the study didn’t stop after 1year, so these children these 600 childrens that have been studied have been on these drugs for 3 years plus now and guess with the doctor shows now, now I got a just read this to you from this article.
Drugs used to treat attention deficit hyper activity disorder have no long term effectiveness, and can start your Childs growth and scientist have conceded that test results that prompted the parental crase to dob these drugs to their kids have been exaggerated. The all time moral treatment study of children with ADHD study concluded that while drugs such as in vitalan work in the short term, there was no demonstrate of all improvement and childrens behavior after 3 years of medication.
Now this next code is from professor from the University of Buffalo. Prof. William Pelham and he said that i think that we have exaggerated the beneficial impact of medication on the first study. We have thought to should be we medicated longer what have better out comes and that didn’t happen to be the case. And this is really good. He points out why these articles are important. The children had a substantial decrease and the rate of growth, so they want to growing is as much as other children will turn in terms of their height and in terms of their weight and the second was that there were no beneficial affects none.
Now this news is making big waves in the international community, for example I am Great Britain Alshaya , now in great Britain there was a lady whose name is Bernus Green Field, And she is come before parliament and were questioned and enquiry in to the number of increases in ADHD diagnosis. Now this is what she has said. As well as they assessing ADHD drugs him selves we also need to find out urgently why there have been such a remarkable increase in the numbers of human begin diagnosed with ADHD in the last 20 years.
And this is the great question she asked, could they changes to our ways of living be contributing to this increase. Then she goes on and says, The time is right for an enquiry explaining the actual causes of ADHD the goes beyond merely evaluating the pros and cons of vitalan. Such an enquiry could consider that diverse factors, ranging from diet to stream based activity and how they may be changing the way both children and adults in our act socially. Children learning a fast phased highly interactive response more type of experience, and may be as a result when they go to school they have a they find a harder to sit still, and then the national institute of Clinical excellence in great Britain is said after all this you know media attention on this, news is come out that they are going to revise the treatment for a ADHD and they are going to incorporate a preventing counseling training for parents as well as behavioral interventions.
So the big news here is that ADHD drug use long term, or just not effective. But really what you are expect these mind altering drugs take a long term eventually your body build upper resistance and tolerance to it . So they are not going to be effective in a long term. So you just really look’s like medication for ADHD is not a good solution in a long run. Now if you are a parent or you know child or you know some one who is taking ADHD drugs I am not telling you to stop your medication, but you may want to pulls information off of the internet take it to your doctor and discuss, you know some therapies and some alternative things that will work for you.
Now I do have to warn you that when people go of caffeine like they can have some never gained with withdrawal symptoms, but we are not talking caffeine here, we are talking about schedule to not alcoholic highly addictive substances. So if you are going to go off these drugs make sure under medical supervision because these with draw symptoms can be very, very substantial. Now these drugs have been controversial for years and earlier this year the FDA had a special meeting a committee meeting to discussed, adverse events and side effects of these ADHD drugs. And really the way is to warn, those who are taking this drug. So I want to redo some parts of this FDA official release.
And as I said the US food and drug administration the FDA, today directed the manufactures of all drug products approve with the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to develop patient medication guides to a low patience to possible cardiovascular risks of adverse psychiatric symptoms associated with the medicines and to advise them of precautions that can be taken.
And FDA review of report of serious cardio vascular adverse events and patience taking usual dozes of ADHD products with the reports of the sudden death and patience with under lying serious heart problem cardio affects, and reports of stroke and heart attack in adults with certain risk factors. Another FDA review of ADHD medication review the slight increased risk for drug related psychiatric adverse events such as hearing voices becoming makes it specials for no reason becoming manche, even in patience who do not have previous psychiatric problems. Now stick with on this is belong to stick with me. Patient medication guides are hand out that given to patients, families and care givers what a medicine is to spends the guides contain FDA approve patient information that could help prevent serious adverse events, patience being treated with ADHD products should read the information before taking the medication and talk to the doctors, if they have any questions or concerns.
Now I went and puled of a medication guide for vitalan and this medication guide is going to vary a little bit from other ADHD drugs but this is what you are supposed to receive when you get a prescription for vitalan at the pharmacy. And I just want to redo the information in this little black boxes, because these are the warning this is the information that you really need to know if you are taking this prescriptions. And this is the official approved language by the FDA. And its start of by saying what is the most important information I should know about vitalan. And then it goes ahead and says the following has been reported with use of vitalan and others stimulant medicines.
Number one heart related problems and that includes sudden death and patience to a heart problems or heart defects stroke and heart attack in adults and increased blood pressure and heart rate, tell your doctor if you or your child has any heart problems heart defects high blood pressure or family history of these problems. Your doctor should check your child carefully for heart problems before starting vitalan.
Your doctor should also check you or your Childs blood pressure and heart rate regularly during treatment with vitalan. And then the number 2 types of problems that have been reported with the use of vitalan is metal psychiatric problems.
And for all patience this includes new worst behavior and the thought problems new or worst by polo illness and new or worst aggressive behavior or hostility. And then specifically for children and teenagers that says new psychiatric symptoms such as hearing voices believing things that are not true or suspicious or new manche symptoms. Now I know I didn’t talk about any alternative therapies and solutions for ADHD in this video but I didn’t make a video just a few days ago and its called ADHD treatments verse possible cure. So watch that video that’s for you are looking for there is some great information in there. Now this you know this video is all about showing the facts the news is that long term treatment using ADHD drugs is not effective is not a good long term solution for ADHD. So there it is there is a facts take care yourself, please rate this video and I will see you next time. Thanks.
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