The danger of using drugs to medicate attention deficit and hyperactivity

2023-10-23 12:14:57

Watch this video that is not wasted. It’s the interview we do Cristina García del Campopresident of the Association of People Affected by Drugs (ADAF) and I Oliver Foundationcounselor at a Secondary School in Valencia and health psychologist. We talk about attention deficit and hyperactivity and the drugs that are used to medicate children.

Fundamento explains to us what officially the Attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity (ADHD), but it also tells us that other readings can be made of this phenomenon. To what extent this diagnosis is widespread in childhood and in schools, she sees it every day in her work.

And he tells us that amphetamines and drugs very similar to cocaine are used to treat children and young people. This psychologist explains what are the dangers of the ADHD drugs and what interests there are around this disease. I also ask him if it is a disease invented by the pharmaceutical industry, don’t miss his answer.

We also commented that there are parents who complain about being told that ADHD is a
invention, that their children are really sick. And we analyze the so-called «Bible of Psychiatry»the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) that includes this and many other controversial diagnoses.

Well, Fundamento gives us the guidelines to correctly treat ADHD from psychology. And in today’s society we have set the threshold of disease resistancewe tolerate pain and illness less in general:

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