Posted on 09 February 2011. Tags: 911, abuse, administrators, African-American, anger, apartment, arrest, AskDrO.com, assault, behavior, black, blog, boys, bully, call, change, cheating, children, community, Current events, enough, harassment, help, hero, hurt, ignorance, immigrant, Khoury, Liberian, management, Nadin, NBC, neighborhood, Newsworthy, out of control, pack, pain, police, ridiculed, sad, School, shocking, stress, Suicide, teenage, testify, the Today Show, thug, unbelievable, video, violence, warning, wolf
13 year-old Nadin Khoury is your ordinary teenager, the son of Liberian immigrants and a normal, everyday student. But Khoury is small, well-spoken and studious, traits which are “sniffed out” by gangs of bullies nationwide. On his way home from school one day, Nadin was attacked by seven boys from his school, and endured punching, kicking [...]
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Posted on 16 January 2011. Tags: abuse, African-American, anger, anxiety, AskDrO.com, behavior, Beloved, binge, black, blog, carbohydrates, celebrity, change, cheese, CNN, confession, crazy, daytime, depression, disorder, Dr. O, failure, fault, feelings, film, flop, food, gain, happiness, happy, health, host, hurt, interview, issues, macaroni and cheese, mental, movie, movies, notion, odd, Omarion, Oprah Winfrey, out of control, owens, Piers Morgan, pounds, power, recognition, release, risk, sad, sadness, show, strength, talk, warning, weight, woman, women
In a recent interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan for his new talk show, Oprah Winfrey reveals that her diet went on a tailspin binge primarily consisting of macaroni and cheese. Says the daytime talk show queen: “about 30 pounds’ worth.” She said this impulse developed after filming her 1998 release Beloved, starring alongside Danny Glover, [...]
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Posted on 14 December 2010. Tags: abnormal, abuse, activities, Adderall, ADHD, adolescent, affection, African-American, America, anger, anxiety, AskDrO.com, attention deficit, behavior, black, blog, bouts, boy, change, childhood, children, coping, D.owens, dad, deception, depression, disorder, Dr. O, dwight, environment, error, Family, father, fathers, fault, feelings, Focalin, forgive, forgiveness, frustration, girl, happy, illness, intake, lying, Marriage, men, mental, mom, mother, out of control, owens, parent, parents, perspective, physical, population, pressure, relations, relationship, relationships, Ritalin, sad, School, stimulant, tantrums, token, warning, White
Many of you have asked me to do a post on non-medicine interventions for your children. Please be advised that, from a physician’s perspective, a stimulant (Ritalin, Adderall or Focalin) is still absolutely essential for academic success of your child. However, I would like to suggest a couple of other ideas that may be helpful for [...]
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