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Edward M. "Ned" Hallowell (Born 2 December 1949) is a child and adult psychiatrist who specialises in ADD and ADHD. He is the co-author of the books Driven to Distraction (1994) and Delivered From Distraction (2005).
Hallowell claims to have got ADHD himself but has not been formally diagnosed.
Hallowell is an alumnus of both Harvard and Phillips Exeter Academy, and received his medical degree from Tulane University Medical School. Hallowell has authored books on various psychological topics, including problems with attention, focus, stress and worry.
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ADHD
In 1996 Hallowell told Parade magazine. "We're a country founded by ADHD. We are a nation full of ADHD. That's why we are so interesting and exciting.
In Driven to Distraction, published in 1994, Hallowell claimed "ADHD has symptoms that include trouble concentrating, impulsivity, disorganization, procrastination and hyperactivity. Along with behavioral therapy, medication is good because it can improve adults' relationships, parenting skills, job performance, even their sex lives". The book promotes stimulants like Adderall.
Hallowell said "ADHD, when treated properly, is not only "powerfully positive" but probably what made people like Albert Einstein, Edgar Allan Poe, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, John Irving and Henry Ford so special. It also made Hallowell a millionaire.
Safer Than Aspirin Controversy
Hallowell is a firm advocate of taking stimulant medication for ADHD/ADD as the first option of treating it as he has says it is caused by neurological and chemical deficits in the brain. and claimed for many years that Adderall is safer than taking aspirin.
In April 2002 he took part in a slide show presentation held by William W Dodson, like Hallowell, a psychiatrist and ADHD drug advocate, from Denver. Dodson, who received 2,000 dollars for this talk, said that the side effects of Adderall were "Generally mild" despite it being banned by Canada after 12 children died when taking it in Canada and the USA between 1999 and 2003 and despite clinical trials showing notable rates of insomnia, significant appetite suppression and mood swings, as well as rare instances of hallucinations. Those side effects increase significantly among patients who take more pills than prescribed. Shire paid Dodson to give this talk. Hallowell himself said that taking Adderall was safer than aspirin. Dodson later earned earned 45,500 dollars in speaking fees from pharmaceutical companies between 2010 and 2011.
In 2012, Hallowell went on television in an advert with Ty Pennington and said "Undiagnosed, this condition can ruin your family life, ruin your school life. Among adults it leads to underachievement. The prison population is full of people with undiagnosed ADHD. The divorced, the unemployed, the addicted. It's a good news diagnosis because if you get it you can skyrocket. You can soar. You can achieve your goals. You might be a straight-A student. You may be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But you know you could be doing better. Go and get this diagnosis. 80% of adults don't know they have it. Stimulants are very safe. See a doctor who knows what he or she is doing and it's safer than aspirin".
What neither Hallowell or Pennington mentioned was the payment Pennington received from Shire, a manufacturer of Adderall.
Just a year later, in February 2013, after meeting the parents of Richard Fee, who hung himself on 7 November 2011, aged 25, after taking Adderall from February 2010 to October 2011, and developing psychosis, despite showing no signs of the condition in his life, Hallowell said he regretted the promotion of and cavalier and enthusiastic recommendations of stimulants that he had publicly espoused for many years up to then, with the quote "I regret the aspirin analogy. I won't be saying that again. We have kids out there getting these drugs to use as mental steroids-that's dangerous, and I hate to think that I have had a hand in creating that problem. "It is deplorable. These medications aren't M and M's. When used properly Adderall is very safe. It is safer than aspirin but when it is used improperly. It is very dangerous. You are playing with fire".
In September 2016, Larry Diller who warned about overdiagnosis and overmedication of the condition in 1998 in his book "Running On Ritalin" told Hallowell who was expounding his chemical theory "I think the educational/indoctrination propaganda campaign of the academics, supported by big pharma, has been entirely successful. Parents are thinking in terms of neurotransmitters and brain disease. And I like to tell them, experience also affects neurotransmitters. And if the doctor, pressed for time and money, only offers the parents medication or no treatment, the parents will opt for medication. "Better diagnosis," quote, unquote, often means going to a child psychiatrist. And in that case, 95 percent of the children will wind up on medicine. I'm sorry, Ned. That's what happens with better diagnosis these days, because of the structural aspects..."
Groping Charge
In May 2015 Hallowell charged with groping a woman in October 2014. but given pre-trial probation for a year in September 2015.
Personal life
Hallowell lives in the Boston area with his wife, Sue, a social worker, and their three children, Lucy, Jack and Tucker.
Books
- Finding the Heart of the Child (1993)
- Driven to Distraction (1994)
- Answers to Distraction (1996)
- Attention Deficit Disorder : A Different Perception (1997)
- A Walk in the Rain With a Brain (2004)
- When You Worry About The Child You Love (1997)
- Worry (1998)
- 12 Vital Ties That Open Your Heart, Lengthen Your Life, and Deepen Your Soul (1999)
- The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness (2003)
- Delivered from Distraction (2005)
- CrazyBusy (2006)
Television appearances
- Today (9/30/2005)
- The Dr. Oz Show (10/19/2011)
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