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A groundbreaking and definitive consideration of the popular misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and its serious results on children, individuals, and society. Several in seven American children are receiving identified as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - three times what experts have said is appropriate, which makes it one of the very most mishandled and debated conditions in drugs. The numbers are rising every year. Now doctors and Big Pharma are targeting adults and all of those other world to get identified as having ADHD and take medications that will "transform their lives". In ADHD Land, Alan Schwarz requires listeners behind the moments to show the origins and rise of the social and medical trend: There's the father of ADHD, Dr. Keith Conners, who spends 50 years pioneering the disorder and use of drugs like Ritalin before knowing his role in what he now calls "a national catastrophe of dangerous proportions"; a troubled young woman and studious teenage boy who get entangled in the growing ADHD machine and take medications that cause them serious problems; and a pharmaceutical industry that egregiously overpromotes the disorder and earns billions from the mishandling of children (and now adults). While demonstrating that ADHD is real and can be successfully medicated, Schwarz looks an alarm and urges America to wake up and address this growing national problem.
