Attention deficit disorder. (Health & Safety).In New South Wales, Professor Beverley Beverley, town (1991 pop. 16,433), East Riding of Yorkshire, NE England. Beverley is primarily a market town with some shipbuilding and such light industries as the manufacture of railroad and automobile accessories and leather. The famous large minster, or monastery church (13th cent.), was attached to a monastery founded by St. John of Beverley (d. 721) and transformed by Athelstan into a college of canons. Raphael, from the State's Department of Health, told a parliamentary inquiry that despite the fact that psychostimulant 1. producing a transient increase in psychomotor activity. 2. a drug that produces such effects. psy·cho·stim·u·lant (s   k drugs such as Ritalin Rit·a·lin (r t l-n) A trademark for the drug methylphenidate. ADD (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactive A syndrome, usually diagnosed in childhood, characterized by a persistent pattern of impulsiveness, a short attention span, and sometimes hyperactivity, and interfering especially with academic, occupational, and social performance. 1. Highly or excessively active, as a gland. 2. Having behavior characterized by constant overactivity. 3. Afflicted with attention deficit disorder. Latest prescribing figures have shown that as many as one in 36 schoolboys are on the stimulant drugs, and that the rate of prescription has grown rapidly, increasing ninefold since 1990 and tripling between 1994 and 1999 (Advertiser, 19/6/01, p.10; Canberra Times, 19/6/01, p.5, and 4/7/01, p.7; Sydney Morning Herald, 19/6/01, p.3). * Concerns over misdiagnosis mis·di·ag·no·ses (-s  z) An incorrect diagnosis. mis·di ag·nose and excessive prescription of attention deficit disorder drugs to children have led to an official inquiry being set up by the State Government in South Australia (Sunday Mail, 5/8/01, pp.6 & 7; Australian, 6/8/01, p.6).
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