Last updated on November 26, 2023
Podcast 0098; Season 6, Episode 8; 17 January 2023
Dr. Walt Karniski on ADHD Medication: Does It Work and Is It Safe?
From Dr. Karniski’s publicist:
The Big Idea: ADHD is one of the most common problems that pediatricians, pediatric neurologists, and pediatric psychiatrists manage. Most studies indicate that 6-8 percent of children have ADHD. Approximately seventy-four million children live in the United States, and these studies all support the finding that ADHD affects approximately five million of them. And that doesn’t include adults with ADHD.
The So What: Because there are no medical tests to definitively “make a diagnosis” of ADHD, it is easy for critics to dismiss it as a disorder fabricated by doctors, teachers, and pharmaceutical companies. Some parents blame themselves and react with guilt, believing that they should have raised their child differently. So, when presented with the diagnosis is it any wonder that parents might react with confusion, guilt or denial?
Key Messages: It doesn’t matter how often ADHD occurs in the overall population. What matters is what happens to your child. What matters is that a short attention span, distractibility, and impulsivity produce adverse consequences in childhood and as adults. But here is the good news: Treatment with medication significantly decreases the frequency of those undesirable outcomes. In ADHD Medication, Dr. Walt Karniski uses his 40 years of experience as a developmental pediatrician to address important concerns that parents have about the use of medication for the treatment of ADHD, explaining what medication can do for your child, what it cannot do, and how to use medication in a safe way.
Learn more at: https://adhdmedicationbook.com/
Book: ADHD Medication: Does It Work and Is It Safe?
Transcript
Followers of the podcast and blog know that my daughters and I have all been diagnosed with ADHD, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. But what is ADHD? How can we better understand and support this form of Neurodiversity?
Welcome to Perspectives on Neurodiversity, a podcast dedicated to challenging myths and assumptions about Neurodiverse life. I am your host, Christopher Scott Wyatt, speaking as The Autistic Me… and the highly distractable, hyperactive me.
Joining us today is Dr. Walt Karniski, author of the new book ADHD Medication: Does It Work and Is It Safe?
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