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When my 8-year-old son went to second grade last year, his teachers and school counselors were very quick to inform me of his “attention problem”. It wasn’t even the second week of school when they advised me to take my son to his pediatrician to see if he might possibly have Attention Deficit Disorder. Believing that they had my child’s best interest in mind, I immediately made an appointment. My son’s doctor told me that he would need to see a pediatric neurologist to get a firm diagnosis of ADD, but that their waiting lists were at least 3 months long. In the meantime however, he told me, I could start giving my son stimulant medications like Ritalin or Adderall, and maybe that would help boost his attention span. Naively, I filled the prescription for Adderall XR, not questioning why there could be no over-the-phon