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Selling ADHD: how the pharmaceutical industry, schools, and parents helped medicalize childhood restlessness — and how we can unsell it https://ebm.bmj.com/con
by SanjayMehta 11mo ago
Selling ADHD: how the pharmaceutical industry, schools, and parents helped medicalize childhood restlessness — and how we can unsell it
https://ebm.bmj.com/content/30/Suppl_1/A52.2 https://ebm.bmj.com/content/30/Suppl_1/A52.2
- matheusmoreira 11mo agoRecognizing pharmaceutical industry bias does not mean you can throw the baby out with the bathwater by claiming they "invented" ADHD to sell drugs. The fact drug companies want to sell drugs does not imply ADHD is fake. The fact teachers can't cope with hyperactive kids messing up their classes does not imply ADHD is fake. Those attitudes are merely annoyances in a professional setting. It just means we have to undo the damage they cause. The amount of people helped by medications and therapy is substantial and cannot be ignored. Christ. These discussions remind me of one of my professors. He used to claim ADHD was a made up disease too. He also used to say vitamin D deficiency was a drug company scam. Then I was diagnosed with ADHD and hyperparathyroidism secondary to vitamin D deficiency. It's as if god himself wanted me to be living proof that he was full of shit.