ADHD Drugs Don't Boost Kids' Grades, Studies Find
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#2Focus and memory isn't enough, is the takeaway from this article.
You have to teach people good study habits, habits they won't necessarily have if they have ADHD/ADD. That focus is great, but only if properly targeted towards the tasks that need to be accomplished and the material that needs to be learned.
Re: ADHD Drugs Don't Boost Kids' Grades, Studies Find
#3Focus and memory isn't enough, is the takeaway from this article. You have to teach people good study habits, habits they won't necessarily have if they have ADHD/ADD. That focus is great, but only if properly targeted towards the tasks that need to be accomplished and the material that needs to be learned.
Not to mention that all the drugs in the world can't make a kid care about completing the scutwork some schools dish out.
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#4Yes it won't boost their grades, but it will actually make them be able to be "normal" people.
People haven't lived with someone with actual/bad ADHD if they think drugs don't work.
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#5No but they do boost Pfizer's stock price!
Placebos are a billion dollar business!
Re: ADHD Drugs Don't Boost Kids' Grades, Studies Find
#6Focus and memory isn't enough, is the takeaway from this article. You have to teach people good study habits, habits they won't necessarily have if they have ADHD/ADD. That focus is great, but only if properly targeted towards the tasks that need to be accomplished and the material that needs to be learned.
So, like everything else in the world, success at this task is a balance of many things and not just one single thing?
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#7As someone who grew up with ADHD managed by stimulant drug therapy since age 7, I can earnestly say that my experience was that ADHD drugs did boost my grades and were a crucial factor in my career success, to date (and still are).
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#8Yes it won't boost their grades, but it will actually make them be able to be "normal" people. People haven't lived with someone with actual/bad ADHD if they think drugs don't work.
As somebody who grew up with "actual/bad ADHD," I find this statement, frankly, insulting. As a result of being drugged with Ritalin/Adderall throughout my childhood, I've had this notion of being somehow "wrong" or "broken" ingrained in my psyche, an effect with which I still struggle to this day. There are plenty of schools in which to enroll children with ADHD, and there are a ton of career paths - generally related to creative thinking - in which we can express ourselves freely without the stigma of being somehow "abnormal."
Have you ever actually taken an adderall? It has an intense narcotic effect, which is why people abuse it. I can't believe we give it to our children.
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#9So we're going to look at grades as an indicator of success here? Grades, which have been shown time and time again to have very weak, if any correlation with success?
I've dealt with ADHD my entire life. As a kid people could see I was smart, but "if only he could apply himself!" One of the most pivotal decisions I ever made was to seek counseling, and ultimately medication, when I was flunking out of college. My grades improved enough to get me through undergrad. However they were never stellar because I was finally able to focus on all of the various ideas I had kicking around in my head that I was far, far more passionate about.
I could rattle off a list of crazy successes that I would have never been able to achieve had I never sought medication, but honestly it boils down to one thing. When I want to do something that requires mental focus, said mental focus is no longer a barrier. I can actually do it. Because of that, I'm happy.
So instead of grades, what about quality of life?
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#10If a kid is taking the meds just for the grades, that's wrong. But ask the parents/teachers if they are paying attention and remembering instructions better if they do (which often have a impact on grades).