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started. Welcome Dr. Beth Neal to the Autism-EdD.D. podcast.

Thank you. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here, Holly.

I am thrilled that you are here. I'm going to introduce you really quick to my audience.

Dr. Beth Neal is the owner and care provider at Focus MD in Raleigh, North Carolina, a medical practice

specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with ADHD and symptoms of ADHD.

She has dedicated most of her 20-plus year career on some level to the treatment of ADHD

ADHD in both children and adults. So today we're going to be talking

about medication. And medication comes up whole of the time in my, you know, lots of post in my

Facebook group. Parents are wanting some answers, which is definitely understandable. It's a big thing to be a parent

considering medication for your child, right? Right. Yes. Medicine is a, it's a big step. It's a big step to take.

And I think a lot of things, you know, have to be considered. And so I hope that today,

that's one thing we can help with. You know, I think each parent, each caregiver, will

ultimately go back and talk with their family, with their providers, more about the medicine.

But hopefully what we talk about today can help give them some more knowledge and something

to think about and maybe some comfort about the medications and knowledge to take with them to their next appointment with

their providers, whoever that may be. Definitely. Yeah. So before we get into medication,

you and I are on the same page, total agreement about how necessary it is to have an excellent mental health therapist

with experience working with children diagnosed with ADHD. This is a big one. We do know,

yes, definitely, we know the research tells us over and over again. The best support we can give these differently wired kids is both

excellent mental health, behavioral therapy, and also medication. So that's something to

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