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If the kids are taking all these meds and are still displaying the behaviors, I bet ADHD is not the correct diagnosis. Normally, there is a major difference on and off the meds. I agree with trying to talk to the psychiatrists who perscribed the meds to find out why. None of my kids every needed any of the large amount of medication they were on. I do have two that needed something entirely different, but noone would know as they were walking pharmacies. Not looking you in the eye is an attachment or trauma behavior, not an ADHD behavior(this does not mean they have attachment disorder, just an issue-however, with all those meds, I'd want an evaluation for RAD). Most kids in foster care are diagnosed ADHD and put on meds. They may or may jnot actually have it. Can you talk to the former foster family? They often have better insite to the child's actual needs and behaviors.
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