![]() ![]() In 2011, having spent four years exposing the dangers of concussions in the National Football League and youth sports for The New York Times, I wanted another project. He spoke with Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook. The result is a damning indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, and an alarming portrait of what is being done to children in the name of mental health. Explaining this fact-how it is that perhaps two thirds of the children diagnosed with ADHD do not actually suffer from the disorder-is the book’s central mystery. This is the central fact of the journalist Alan Schwarz’s new book, ADHD Nation. ![]() According to the American Psychiatric Association, about 5 percent of American children suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), yet the diagnosis is given to some 15 percent of American children, many of whom are placed on powerful drugs with lifelong consequences. ![]()
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