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Misguided Standards of Care. Boston Globe, June 19, 2007, p. A9.

Bipolar Madness. San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, 2007, p. D5.

Medications and Behavior. Diller, L., Goldstein, S. in Understanding and Managing Children’s Classroom Behavior: Creating Sustainable, Resilient Classrooms, Sam Goldstein and Robert Brooks (eds.), (Hoboken NJ, Wiley & Sons) 2007.

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Don’t Bluff. Salon.com (www.salon.com/mwt/col/dill/2002/10/16/discipline), October 15, 2003.

No Answers, Only Questions. Salon.com (www.salon.com/mwt/col/dill/2003/02/12/diller_balance), February 12, 2003.

Anxiety and Genetically Engineered Mice. LH Diller, WB Carey, New England Journal of Medicine (letter), 347: 1626, 2002.

A Pediatrician in Shining Armor. Salon.com (www.salon.com/mwt/col/dill/2002/09/17/diller), September 17, 2002.

A Prescription for Disaster. Salon.com (www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/05/23/drug_tests), May 23, 2002.

Should I Medicate My Child? Sane Solutions for Troubled Kids With and Without Psychiatric Drugs (New York: Basic Books) 2002.

Lessons from Three Year Olds. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 23 (1S): S10-12, 2002.

An End Run to Marketing Victory (Selling the Need for Speed). Salon.com (www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/10/18/drug_ads) October 18, 2001.

Coca-Cola, McDonald’s e Ritalin. Informazioni sui Farmaci (Italian), 25: 109-111, 2001.

Controversies in the Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD: One Doctor’s Perspective. Healthology.com, August 20, 2001.

Concerns about Ritalin (letter). WB Carey, LH Diller, Journal of Pediatrics 139: 338-339, 2001

Defusing the Explosive Child. Salon.com (www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/07/18/discipline), July 18, 2001

Adderall and the FDA (letter). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 40 (7): 737, 2001

Coca-Cola, McDonalds, et Ritaline. L’enfant Excite in Enfances & Psy (French), No. 14 2001 

The Ritalin Wars Continue.  Western Journal of Medicine, 173: 366-367, 2000.

The Invariant Prescription Redux: the Key to Effective Parenting. The Family Therapy Networker, November/December, p. 54-62, 2000.

Just Say Yes to Ritalin. Salon.com (www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/09/25/medicate) September 25, 2000

Dying on Ritalin. Salon.com (www.salon.com/health/log/2000/04/27/ritalin), April 27, 2000.

In the Best Interest of the Child: A Commentary. In Children of Embattled Divorce: University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, 22 (3): 391-393, Spring 2000.

The Child Guidance Model and Its Legacy (book review of Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority by Kathleen W. Jones).   Medical Humanities Review, 14 (1),: 65-68, Spring 2000.

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Kids on Drugs. Salon.com (www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/03/09/kids_drugs), March 9 and 10, 2000. Winner of the 2000 Excellence in Journalism Award by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists

Are Stimulants Overprescribed? (letter), Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 39 (3): 269, 2000.

Challenging Case: ADHD, Divorce, and Parental Disagreement About the Diagnosis and Treatment.  M Stein, L Diller, R Resnikoff, Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 21 (1): 53-57, 2000.

Over-Medicating America’s Kids. Washington Post, February 2, 2000, p. A21.

More and More, Families Seem Eager to Take the Ritalin Step. Los Angeles Times, December 27, 1999, p. A13.

Cultural Factors in Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (letter), New England Journal of Medicine, 340 (22): 1766, 1999.

Book Review, “ADHD in Adolescence: Diagnosis and Treatment,” in Journal of Attention Disorders, 3 (2): 105-106, 1999.

Running on Ritalin (excerpt), Family Therapy Networker, May-June 1999, pp. 41-47.

Would Tom Sawyer Have Been Prescribed Ritalin? San Francisco Chronicle, March 18, 1999, p. A25.

Assessment of Adderall in ADHD (letter), Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38 (1): 2, 1999.

Pills for Kids Sound Alarm Bell in Suburbs, USA Today, November 12, 1998, p. 15A.

Ritalin Nation: Widespread Use Reflects Society’s Imbalanced Priorities, Atlanta Constitution, October 25, 1998, p. G1.

Running on Ritalin (excerpt), DoubleTake Magazine, Fall 1998, pp. 46-55.

Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society and Performance in a Pill  (New York: Bantam, September 1998).

Questioning Interventions for Dyslexia (letter), New England Journal of Medicine, 300 (25):  1853, 1998.

Book Review, “Rethinking Attention-Deficit Disorders,” in Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 18 (6): 424, 1997.

The Case of the Missing Methylphenidate (letter), Pediatrics, 100 (4): 730, 1997.

Commentary: Case Studies, “Diagnosis du Jour? Understanding Attentional Deficits Can Sharpen Our Treatment Strategies,” Family Therapy Networker, January-February, 1997.

Use of Growth Hormone for Non-Growth Hormone Deficient Children (letter), JAMA, 276 (23): 1877-78, 1996.

Book Review, "Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry: Blaming the Body," Colin A. Ross and Alvin Pam (editors) in Journal of Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics, 17: 200-201, 1996. 

Etiology of ADHD: Nature or Nurture? (letter), LH Diller, JL Tanner, J Weil, American Journal of Psychiatry 153: 451-52, 1996.

The Run on Ritalin: Attention Deficit Disorder and Stimulants in the 1990's, Hastings Center Report, 25 (2), 1996. 

Decreasing the Controls on Stimulants: A Reconsideration, California Pediatrician, 11:21-22, 1995

Book Review, "Play in Family Therapy," by Eliana Gil in Journal of Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics, 16:287-288, 1995

Commentary, Case Studies, "Long Distance Therapy," in The Family Therapy Networker, 18(3), 1994

Book Review, "Severe Behavioral Problems: Functional Communication Training Approach," by V. Mark Durrand in Journal of Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics 14:374-375, 1992

Not Seen, Not Heard: Children in Family Therapy, The Family Therapy Networker, 15(4), 1991

A Week in the Life: A Family Doc, The Family Therapy Networker, 11(2), 1987

On Giving Good Advice Successfully, Family Systems Medicine, 4(1), 1986

Men and Contraception: A Social and Historical Update, in Men's Reproductive Health, K.F. Forrest and J. M. Swanson (eds.), Springer Publishing Co., NY (1985).

Male Contraception and Family Planning: A Social and Historical Review, L. Diller and W. Hembree, Journal of Fertility and Sterility, 28(12), 1977