The Catalan society of Psychiatry Infanto Juvenil shows concern for the informative treatment of the attention Deficit with hyperactivity (ADHD) disorder

Barcelona, March of 2013. The Board of the company Catalana of Psychiatry Infanto-Juvenil, of the Academy of medical sciences and health of Catalonia and Balearic Islands, made public a letter to media where “our concern over the little rigorous way, from the scientific point of view, as discussed recently by Attention Deficit Disorder-related information with” Hyperactivity (ADHD) and its treatment”.

“The ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder, frequent in our population, which requires an adequate diagnosis, using clinical knowledge development and child psychopathology, as well as the use of reliable and validated assessment instruments,” says the letter.

Also, the writing of the Sociedad Catalana de Psychiatry Infanto-Juvenil recalls that “when a person, with an ADHD, is not diagnosed until later stages of life, we know you have more risk of school failure, depressive and anxious symptoms, more risk for traffic accidents and even an increased risk of committing suicide. All of them are consequences directly or indirectly linked to the difficulties in the control, attention and power, that defines the disorder. “

For this reason, the society believes that”our population deserves know this scientific reality, which at no time overrides the individual and personalized treatment should always be to children when they are our patients, attending the subjectivity that defines him as a unique person within his life career.”

“It is important to make us aware of the doubts that generate certain opinions that they often appear in the media, with an important component of ideological and demagogic, question not only drug treatment or behaviour of this disorder, but even its existence. “, underlines the letter.

“Finally, the Catalan society of Psychiatry Infanto-Juvenil affirms that “not we can manifest, therefore, that it is abusing the medication in the treatment of ADHD in our country, without falling into claims of scarce scientific and epidemiologic rigor.”

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Its purpose is to encourage the study and the cultivation of the Sciences of health in all its aspects: human, technical, social and civic, both in its care as a teacher and research.

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It is present around Catalonia, and Balearic Islands, Valencia and Andorra, with its 22 subsidiaries and, due to its special characteristics, fruit of the momentum of civil society, can be seen that it is a unique institution.