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WND 3/3/2023

Challenges 'science' of medicating millions for ADHD

A licensed clinical psychologist who serves as a research associate at the Natural Language Processing lab at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is openly questioning whether today's society is drugging children – without reason.

Yaakov Ophir has specific expertise in child therapy, parent training, and family interventions, and his PhD comes from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published 20 peer-reviewed scientific articles.

It is in a commentary at the Brownstone Institute web pages that he doubts the "scientific" justification for the medications used for ADHD.

"'As glasses help people focus their eyes to see,' medical experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics rule, 'medications help children with ADHD focus their thoughts better and ignore distractions,'" he noted.

That's the basis, he explained, for the lifelong plan to administer stimulants for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

But there are problems, he noted.

More:https://www.wnd.com/2023/03/medicating-millions-adhd-children-without-scientific-justification/

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Re: Psychologist wonders if society is drugging kids without reason
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2023, 01:26:23 am »
Don Quixote tilting at a Sacred Cow.

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"In fact, a close reading of the available science suggests that the vast majority of the diagnoses simply reflects common and pretty normative childhood behaviors that underwent unjustified medicalization," he said.

I agree, and will add "What do they (usually teachers) expect when children are raised in a short attention span world?

Virtually every electronic device around them is flashing at them to get them to pay attention for ads for the latest thing they should get their parents to buy them, and even TV commercials have been cut to 15 seconds so they don't get bored.

You want them to sit in a classroom and listen to Ms. Crotchcinaknot drone on for how long?

If they'd been started on books they could look away from and not miss anything, maybe the outcome would be different.
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