ADHD Medication Rules [Kindle Edition]

Dr Charles Parker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 29, 2011

We may be the most scientifically advanced country in the world regarding identification and medical treatment of ADHD - but a serious medical inconsistency remains: too many simply don't pay enough attention to the meds for paying attention.

Both public and professionals regularly overlook essential ADHD treatment elements, important scientific data points that outline more predictable treatment mapping strategies. From superficial diagnosis by appearances, to medication dosage management by cookie cutter strategies, the uninformed use of stimulant medications is too often based upon criteria that vary from whimsy to hearsay.

"ADHD Medication Rules" is the only book available that spells out and simplifies those essential medication details for both patients and professionals. "ADHD Medication Rules" offers those medical answers in the form of understandable, practical solutions for everyday practice, for every medication review. "Rules" is based upon the latest brain science, and includes a variety of associated treatment topics that address the real complexity of ADHD medical management.

The variables that effect medication effectiveness range from sleep, to breakfast, to biomedical interferences that can dramatically change the way medications burn in the body. Without "Rules" the possibility of missing potentially dangerous drug interactions and associated diagnostic challenges, such as depression and anxiety, adds to the greater possibility of treatment failure.

A key objective for "Rules:" engaging your medical team in more participatory dialogue with more clear expectations for medication outcomes and improved discussion at every medication check.

Your anticipated "Rules" net result: Saved time, saved money, more predictable improvement, with better understanding of the entire ADHD medication treatment process at any age.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

I organized ADHD Medication Rules after years of picking up the pieces during difficult second opinions in my office - both from my own treatment failures and my colleagues who missed aspects of the medication treatment process. To this day far too many simply write for ADHD meds without remotely thinking about the complexity, the details or the long term implications of medication management.

ADHD Medication Rules reports understandable, data driven standards that arise directly from the extensive literature on medications, and from the newest information on SPECT imaging, immune system challenges, metabolic problems and simple genetic issues that often go overlooked when using ADHD meds. Symptom targets need improvement, and dosage strategies need far more attention.

Science works if you work it.

I've taught others to use Rules understandings since 1996 all across the USA, from LA and Seattle, to NYC, Boston and Chicago, and know that they work because the Rules have improved over the years that new science has become available.

Rules is a book that addresses the same underlying theme as Deep Recovery: Labels absolutely don't cover the complexity of human beings - and the biology is far too often underappreciated. "Codependency" and "ADHD" simply don't do justice to the living dynamics of the recovery processes.

From the Inside Flap

Dr Charles Parker, a practicing child and adult psychiatrist and neuroscience consultant, has lectured nationally on the details of ADHD medications since 1996, is an award winning journalist at CorePsych Blog, the author of Deep Recovery (1992) and teaches both professionals and the public how to use available neuroscience evidence at CoreBrain Training.

Dr Parker is certified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to provide SPECT functional brain imaging, and routinely uses advanced neurotransmitter, endocrine and immune laboratory assessments to evaluate complex ADHD presentations.

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Product Details

• File Size: 761 KB
• Print Length: 190 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005JZ932W
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
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More About the Author

Dr Charles Parker (1942-present) was born in Philadelphia, PA - in West Philly at the old Philadelphia Osteopathic Hospital on 48th and Spruce to a war-nomad family - father Navy, mother a physician (DO) who graduated in 1939 from the same medical hospital. As a child and adult psychiatrist with more than 41 years of experience in the office-trenches Parker brings a fresh clinical street sense to the variety of clinical challenges seen in everyday problems.

From addiction recovery to neurotransmitter measurements and SPECT imaging, Parker encourages a fresh perspective for chronic psychiatric treatment failures. Parker's mission is simple: tell the truth to those who will listen, and the necessary medical change will happen. The truth lives in mind-science itself, and yet the story needs public interpretation. http://www.about.me/drcharlesparker

When Parker wrote "Deep Recovery" in 1992 the world reveled in the psychobabble of recovery and codependency - and his initial keynote presentations were met with edgy disagreement as some feared he challenged their evolving "child within." "Deep Recovery," however, proves useful even today, as it demonstrates with specific examples how labels can impede the recovery process from any repetitive/addictive disorder. Today Parker finds abundant medical support as recovery experts now recognize the complexity of biological problems present in any recovery process. Dopamine receptors matter.

Currently Parker regularly reports new science findings on the award-winning CorePsych Blog [from 2006], and recently finished the second edition of "ADHD Medication Rules: Paying Attention To The Meds For Paying Attention." The same reductionistic thinking of 1992 - present in the recovery movement during those days - remains daily at play in current ADHD psychiatric diagnosis and treatment protocols orchestrated through misleading superficial appearances.

Superficial diagnostic labels for ADHD simply don't provide adequate dynamic targets for the complexity of the multiple, often changing, faces of ADHD. Most importantly, those superficial labels too often encourage unpredictable results - especially in the face of abundant new brain and body science. Fresh laboratory data encourages improved outcomes. "ADHD Medication Rules" provides an introduction to that new brain science in conversational terms.

"Rules" aims at one target: to change the simplistic way too many think about diagnosis and treatment for ADHD. Appreciation for the details on every level of ADHD diagnosis and treatment will encourage improved medication results.