I’m writing about the mis-diagnoses of so-called attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and the over-medication of our innocent children.
There is no scientific evidence that there truly is such a disorder. Unruly children, so diagnosed, are just discipline problems, usually lacking in parental control. Schools have jumped on the medication bandwagon to make things easier for themselves, rather than tackling the real problem, and the pharmaceutical companies are in it for the money. What damage has been done to the youth of this nation is uncountable, and it is ongoing. The public news media has fueled this misplaced fervor by assuming that psychiatrists know what they are talking about, but the whole field of psychiatry has many very subjective matters that are always the subject of disagreement.
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., a neurologist of renown, has attacked the whole idea of ADHD scientifically, and has been published extensively on the subject, as well as testified before Congress. A respected member of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, he has stated categorically that “I could find no scientific basis for the diagnosis” of ADHD (interview with Insight magazine, Feb. 18).
Snohomish
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