An urgently needed study of the diagnosis and medication of ADHD reveals a disease ruthlessly marketed by drug companies, scientists and self-help authors

Months before I was diagnosed, I had already fallen into the clutches of what the New York Times journalist Alan Schwarz calls the “ADHD industrial complex”. In his new book, ADHD Nation, Schwarz details how this circle of pharmaceutical companies, scientists, patient advocacy groups and self-help authors have succeeded in so diluting the diagnostic criteria for ADHD, and then so ruthlessly marketing it, that today nearly one in seven young people in the US, and one in five boys, has a diagnosis.  Read the rest of this article at The Guardian…