Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the intersection of mental health, wellness and parenting. She is the former ...

Exactly thirty years ago on May 15th,1996, the New York Times published a front-page lead to a report of a boom in Ritalin ...

Lynne Edris is a Pennsylvania-based life coach who specializes in working with the parents of children who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Edris helps clients develop strategies ...

The controversy over using Ritalin and other stimulants to treat ADHD surfaces repeatedly, often with emotional rhetoric which can lead those in need to avoid ever using such medications or allowing ...

News Ritalin on Trial While some Houston parents fight what they charge is “a river of Ritalin” running through the schools, one father has gone to court to try to prove that, for his son, Ritalin use ...

Ritalin (methylphenidate) is a stimulant medication for the treatment of ADHD and narcolepsy. Ritalin can cause side effects and has the potential for misuse and addiction. Researchers are ...

The stimulant shortage is continuing for the foreseeable future. Many people who are on ADHD stimulant medications are still having a hard time finding them. Whether you can find a medication is ...