Testing for ADHD: Read His Lips

"To date, no neuropsychological tests can reliably identify ADHD."

—Craig B.H. Surman, MD, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Scientific Coordinator, Adult ADHD Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Posted 8/2/2006, on Medscape.com

Antipsychotics Rx Errors

"Medication errors can result either from a prescribing error or a dispensing error or a combination of both. A new study by a group of British pharmacists suggests that in psychiatry, prescribing errors are fairly common."
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"Overall, Taylor and his colleagues concluded, 'pharmacy staff detected on average one prescribing error for every 42 prescriptions checked.'… 'most errors were of doubtful or minor importance, but' 1 in 33 errors was deemed likely to result in serious effects or death."

—by Jim Rosack, "Antipsychotics Prone to Prescribing Errors," July 21, 2006, Psychiatric News, Vol. 41, #14, p.8