A recent article in the claims that ADHD is undertreated and urges doctors to prescribe more psychoactive medication to our children. I personally found the article to be deeply disappointing and superficial. Children do have issues with hyperactivity and inattention, just like children have specific issues with reading (as I did as a child), but these traits are so ubiquitous as to represent simply a spectrum of normality. We must support children with specific problems but labelling children for life and prescribing psychoactive medication at key developmental periods is just not supported by the evidence.
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