S***** H*** wrote: Dear Sir: Our 7 year old Grandson has been recommended for ADD diagnosis by his teacher. Although he has not undergone any testing, drug therapy concerns me. [Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD: the surest way to avoid the drugging of your child is to tell… Read more »

Freethinker wrote: Dr. Baughman, I applaud you…BRAVO~ I have stood up to *the teachers* who are diagnosting this *ADHD thing* forever…..i will gladly pass this email addy out freely. And thank you for talking with me on the phone, about 3 years ago, you gave me the courage to… Read more »

[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD: thank you Maria, this is clearly a conspiracy funded by the world wide pharm industry, with psychiatry (also pediatrics, neurology and family practice) and government, at all levels, representing not just adhd but all emotional pain and troubled behaviors to be diseases, brain diseases that they alone… Read more »

[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD: this sounds like a peripheral neuropathy, not disease of brain or spinal cord (we have no doctor-patient relationship). There is a temporal relationship to the Adderall and since there is no essential need for this drug, you would be foolish to continue on it…in fact foolish… Read more »

J*********@***.com wrote: Our 8 yr old son have been taking adderall for a couple of years to treat ADHD. He has a continued problem with controlling his urine. Bed wetting at night and now problems during the day. Are there any side effects of him taking the Adderall which… Read more »