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ADHD:  The Hoax Unravels

May 19, 2016 by Robert Hammel, Registered Psychologist Leave a Comment

An interesting article on why therapy should be used before drugs for treating ADHD.  Also calls attention to how the pharmaceutical industry has become  marketing and sales focussed.

At the risk of stating the obvious, ADHD is not an illness.  Rather, it is an unreliable and disempowering label for a loose collection of arbitrarily chosen and vaguely defined behaviors.  ADHD has been avidly promoted as an illness by pharma-psychiatry for the purpose of selling stimulant drugs.  In which endeavor, they have been phenomenally successful, but, as in other areas of psychiatry, the hoax is unraveling.

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