1999- 2007: OCD: ADHD: Childhood Bipolar Disorder: The Evolution of a Diagnosis ; part 10

A couple of interesting things got past me in my reading.

At Furious Seasons, I left this comment today after re-reading the entry, and saw Carlat had left a comment there.Carlat's blog is a new one I'm just starting to discover, and when I went to his blog, I got the answer I was looking for--once again, just observing here folks--it sure looks like Biederman and Faraone's names come up an awful lot.

In abstracts, studies, anything from OCD, to ADHD to Bipolar in kids. The progression of the diagnoses over the years also seems to progress with the popular meds.

I have some DTC literature that was left for consumers at my psychiatrist's office in the waiting area, and it's from Shire. It's all about the Daytrana patch and what I found was a treasure chest of DTC with a target audience of adults with ADHD just from the stack of brochures I brought home.

Here is my recent comment from Furious Seasons:

The Bipolar Child: Psych Docs At War


"Biederman deserves skewering for his role in Shire-funded "education" urging psychiatrists to use more stimulants--a different issue." --Carlat

I just noticed this last sentence in Daniel Carlat's comment, and would like to know more about the stimulants, and would that be for ADHD? What exactly was Biederman's role?--Stephany"
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Here is what I found at Carlat's blog:

Announcing the "Doctors for Dollars" Award

Read Carlat's entire entry, it is worth your time to really pay attention to industry, pharmaceutical,payments to doctors, funding for studies,education-- and see in the end that a certain few are connected from many aspects, and they all seem to end up at the same place.




Interesting side note: I hope the readers from Harvard, etc. are enjoying my blog. Happy Trails.