Being an ADD/ADHD youth worker #4: Medication

• No matter what I say here it will make half the audience mad
• My experience is that a few, but very few, do need to be medicated
• Always do a double blind test to make sure it is, in reality, doing something worthwhile
• Only use to take the edge off of extreme cases
• They do not need to be drugged into submission
• “Normal” is not the goal. They only need to be calm enough to function and to take advantage of their condition.