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Attention Deficit Disorder Wins Media Attention: Thanks to the drug industry?

Consider it a gift this holiday season, the appearance of a nuanced children’s health article on the front page of the New York Times. It tops the news heavy-weight’s Most Emailed list today too with over a 1,200 comments and counting. The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder. It’s a multi-page …

Ritalin Gone Wrong? Ritalin Results Gone Wrong

Newsweek, 1996: Ritalin on the ropes. Ritalin and other drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder don’t produce long-term improvements in behavior and worse may harm children who suffer not from a complex neurological disorder but from bad parenting, poverty and stress and thus cannot be cured with a simple pill. So reported L. Alan Sroufe, Professor Emeritus (University of Minnesota’s …