There is an epidemic of over-diagnoses of ADHD

There is not an epidemic of ADHD in the country, there is an epidemic of fraudulent diagnoses of this disorder. Fred A. Baughman Jr., M. D., a Pediatric Neurologist, has elucidated upon this problem very effectively in his paper "Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) As Fraud." Dr Baughman has noted that with absolutely no proof that ADHD is a disease with a confirmatory, physical abnormality, the ADHD “epidemic,” grew from 150,000 in 1970, to five million in 1997. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Ritalin production, in the United States , rose 700%, between 1990 and 1997.

There is an epidemic of over-diagnoses of ADHD