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"Experts speak of 5.4 million American children who display the symptoms typical of ADHD."
Anti-psychotic medication is prescribed all of the time to people who clearly do not have schizophrenia. If anyone had a valid complaint it would be these people. Yet schizophrenia is treated as conservatively or aggressively as one may choose. It is the mental illness that gets the lions share of the resources. The medication prices are locked to fit the most meager of budgets. So they take no personal issue with someone else taking their meds. Are these meds abused? Sure. Do they detract from the patients natural personality? Yeah.
People who don't have ADD are sometimes diagnosed with ADD. Children may have developmental lag. This could produce ADD like symptoms. And it may well technically be ADD. Medication may just mask symptoms and delay proper development. But that's true with all medications of the psychiatric class and even some used in more classical medicine. I think Doctors may have a valid argument is saying that medication assists development, healing or recovery.
That someone else's problem, eh? Heck, if it were an epidemic you'd be on easy street.
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