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ADHD Meds: Is NOT Prescribing a Disservice?

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If we talk about ADHD very quickly in a kid, so we know that very young kids between the ages of three and five, then in some of those kids, very intense behavior therapy can be very, very effective for ADHD. But after that, if you're not giving them medication, you're really doing them a disservice if they really have ADHD. Not every kid that struggles with their learning or that has a hard time sitting or that has behavior issues has ADHD. That's we come back to the importance of a diagnosis right >> and the right label. But if the diagnosis is done by someone who's qualified to make the diagnosis and it's done properly, then not giving the kid medicine for ADHD is absolutely positively doing them a tremendous disservice. list.