ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (957 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501105922 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Andrew Sachs said He Nails it!. Alan hits the nail on the head with what's happening in America and our kids. As parents of a wonderful ADHD young man, we struggled for years to get our son help. My wife's a wonderfully talented teacher and we worked together to get him the help he needed and thought the medicine was actually helping (it does remove symptoms!) but, . A Must Read for Parents of Kids All Ages An incredible expose on the pharma industry and its push to make ADHD medications a multi-billion dollar business. While i'm sure all pharma companies heavily promote their products, it just seems more seedy when the target customer is a kid and the product is an addictive medication. Schwarz tells a gripping story, with the facts fro. Good but needs a good editor Wise Old Owl I had high hopes for this book. I was convinced on reading a few reviews and knowing something of the author's other work that this book would lead me to understand the history of ADHD, the heavy pushing of drug companies and how we got from there to here in this moment in time. The problem is that for most of this book, there is stor
Alan Schwarz is a former Pulitzer Prize–nominated investigative reporter for The New York Times whose acclaimed series of more than one hundred articles exposed the seriousness of concussions in the NFL and led to safety reforms for young athletes nationwide. He and his family live in New York City. . His work was profiled in The New Yorker
And those who may be misdiagnosed, a clarion note of caution."—Jerome Groopman, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, staff writer, New Yorker“ADHDNation is a true rarity – a book that confronts an important subject with the authority of an expert, makes its case with the urgency of a red alert, and moves at the pace of a thriller."—Daniel Okrent, New York Times bestselling author of Last Call"In this powerful, necessary book, S
The groundbreaking account of the widespread misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—and how its unchecked growth has made ADHD one of the most controversial conditions in medicine, with serious effects on children, adults, and society. Keith Conners, spent fifty years advocating drugs like Ritalin before realizing his role in what he now calls “a national disaster of dangerous proportions”; a troubled young girl and a studious teenage boy get entangled in the growing ADHD machine and take medications that backfire horribly; and big Pharma egregiously over-promotes the disorder and earns billions from the mishan