FAMILY: Are we producing a generation of hyperactive zombies?*

Lucy Sullivan, from the Centre for Independent Studies, looks at possible reasons for the huge increase in prescription drugs being used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has assumed the character of an epidemic – an epidemic of a psychopathology – among primary school children in the course of the past decade, with rates much higher for boys than for girls. Diagnosis depends upon medical practitioners’ interpretations of individual…

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