PEDIATRICS Vol. 82 No. 5 November 1988, pp. 812
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Medicating Children With Attention Deficit Disorder

JERRY M. WIENER MD1

1 President, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

To the Editor.—

I read the position statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Committees on Children With Disabilities and Drugs (Pediatrics 1987;80:758-760) regarding medication for children with attention deficit disorder. It is encouraging that the American Academy of Pediatrics has undertaken to bring this information to its membership; it is disappointing that, in discussing evaluation and treatment, there was no acknowledgment of any role for the child psychiatrist, even though the vast majority of research into diagnosis and treatment has been done by child psychiatrists and published in the psychiatric literature.