REVIEW: Dr. Walt Karniski — ADHD Medication (BOOK)
“Many people feel that ADHD is overdiagnosed. What they are really implying with this statement is that the actual prevalence of ADHD is higher than they would expect. The prevalence of a disease is the percentage of people in a defined population that has that disease at any given time. So, what is the prevalence of ADHD?
Most studies indicate that 6–8 percent of children have ADHD,” Dr. Walt Karniski writes in his new book, ADHD Medication: Does It Work and Is It Safe? It’s this willingness to pose the tough questions and admit when there isn’t an immediate answer that really sets ADHD Medication: Does It Work and Is It Safe? apart from its literary peers. A true expert is willing to admit the fallibilities of their profession. This is both apt in an educational context, and makes Karniski humanized to a fault. There’s never the feeling there’s a sense of removal between the author and the book’s immediate, topical content. If anything, it’s just the opposite, Karniski approaching the subject matter in a manner feeling personal and professional in an entwined sort of context.
By doing this, the actual material at hand — the sometimes capricious, sometimes deeply frustrating origins of the ADHD medical diagnosis — is highlighted in its entirety, the medical possibilities and differentiations specified from A to Z. In this case, it’s kind of mandatory given the aforementioned traits of the diagnosis’ application. In less competent hands literarily, it could have been a fatal, tonal and collective reading experience mistake. It makes the dry and intellectually exclusive nature of the statistics compelling, even to the decidedly uninitiated. And because of that, the read is able to engage its most urgent audience base: the concerned parents and their families Karniski is quick to showcase in personalized examples, time and again.
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/ADHD-Medication-Does-Work-Safe-ebook/dp/B09Z69ZRW9
“Hundreds of studies have been conducted to estimate the prevalence of ADHD in the United States and across the world. Even though different populations were surveyed and different diagnostic criteria were used, the findings are surprisingly consistent. ADHD occurs in approximately 6–8 percent of children throughout the world,” he states. “That is an impressive number. Approximately seventy-four million children live in the United States, and these studies all support the finding that ADHD affects approximately five million children in the United States alone. And that doesn’t include the adults with ADHD. Many people feel that this number is way too high. Some of them feel that doctors are over diagnosing ADHD because it is so much easier to give a pill. Some of them feel that poor teaching or poor schools are responsible.
Others blame the parents for not disciplining their children. Some people blame poor diets and food additives and TV and cell phones. Many people believe that ADHD is overdiagnosed for many different reasons. And in some cases, children are misdiagnosed, and some of the explanations above are valid for some children. But ADHD is perceived to be misdiagnosed for two main reasons…(ADHD) lacks an objective tool for making a diagnosis…(and)…The symptoms of ADHD are normal behaviors that everyone exhibits, occasionally, some of the time.”
Colin Jordan
