New Book: American Children Overdiagnosed with ADHD at 3-to-1 Rate
by Kitty Testa Scientific American posted an alarming headline yesterday, Big Pharma’s Manufactured Epidemic: The Misdiagnosis of ADHD. The article’s author, Alan Schwarz, notes that the American Psychiatric Association puts the rate of ADHD at 5% of American children, yet the diagnosis is given to about 15% of children. The overdiagnosis of ADHD has been…