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It was only 7:30, and his mother Kyle Nash, who teaches a medical-school course on death and dying, was already feeling half dead from exhaustion. Dusty was to see his doctors that day at 4, and they had asked her not to give the boy the drug he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHAVIOR: Attention Deficit Disorder: Life in Overdrive | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

It is a community that views itself with some pride. Popular books and lectures about ADHD often point out positive aspects of the condition. Adults see themselves as creative; their impulsiveness can be viewed as spontaneity; hyperactivity gives them enormous energy and drive; even their distractibility has the virtue of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHAVIOR: Attention Deficit Disorder: Life in Overdrive | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

What researchers do say with great certainty is that the condition is inherited. External factors such as birth injuries and maternal alcohol or tobacco consumption may play a role in less than 10% of cases. Suspicions that a diet high in sugar might cause hyperactivity have been discounted. But the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHAVIOR: Attention Deficit Disorder: Life in Overdrive | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

Most experts say ADHD is a lifelong condition but by late adolescence many people can compensate for their impulsiveness and disorganization. They may channel hyperactivity into sports. In other cases, the symptoms still wreak havoc, says UCLA psychiatrist Walid Shekim. "Patients cannot settle on a career. They cannot keep a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHAVIOR: Attention Deficit Disorder: Life in Overdrive | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

Which is not to say the trip was bare of accomplishment. Clinton's presence in Riga and Warsaw earlier in the week was designed to show East Europeans that the U.S. has not forgotten about them while cultivating a Russia that they still deeply distrust. At the Naples summit, Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Interrupt This Summit for . . . | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

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