NYT: Children’s A.D.D. Drugs Don’t
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/opinion/sunday/childrens-add-drugs-dont-work-long-term.xml

What gets publicized are short-term results and studies on brain differences among children. Indeed, there are a number of incontrovertible facts that seem at first glance to support medication. It is because of this partial foundation in reality that the problem with the current approach to treating children has been so difficult to see.

Back in the 1960s I, like most psychologists, believed that children with difficulty concentrating were suffering from a brain problem of genetic or otherwise inborn origin. Just as Type I diabetics need insulin to correct problems with their inborn biochemistry, these children were believed to require attention-deficit drugs to correct theirs. It turns out, however, that there is little to no evidence to support this theory.

I hate, hate, hate how one if the most common ‘disorders’ in modern times doesn’t have a pathogen or any way to be physically diagnosed.   But my god look at the marketing effort.