Product Details
- Format:
- Book - Hard Cover
- Details:
- 272 pages
- Author:
- LAWRENCE DILLER, MD
- Publisher:
- Penguin
- Copyright:
- 1/1/2011
- CE Available:
- No, CE credit is not available
- Product Code:
- SAM044090
Author
LAWRENCE DILLER, MD
Lawrence Diller, M.D., is a behavioral/developmental pediatrician and family therapist. He has evaluated and treated more than 3,000 children and their families over the past 30 years. His book Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society and Performance in a Pill, published in 1998, was featured in a Time magazine cover story on Ritalin. He has also written Should I Medicate My Child? Sane Solutions for Troubled Kids With - And Without - Medication (2002) and The Last Normal Child: Essays on the Intersection of Kids, Culture and Psychiatric Drugs (2006).
Dr. Diller has appeared many times on television and radio nationwide, including Nightline, PBS News Hour, Good Morning America, CBS Early Morning, The Today Show, Frontline and NPR's Fresh Air. His two-part series "Kids on Drugs", featured in the online magazine Salon.com won the Society of Professional Journalist's "Excellence in Journalism" award in 2000. He provided expert testimony on Ritalin before a U.S. Congressional Committee in May 2000 and the President's Council on Bioethics in December 2002. Dr. Diller's latest book, Remembering Ritalin: A Doctor and Generation Rx Reflect on Life and Psychiatric Drugs, was published in 2011.
Continuing Education Credits
CE Credit is not available for this product.
Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI Kids, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.