The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported last year that one in nine kids had received a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)—a significant increase from the previous decade.[…]
Publishers Weekly wrote that the book, The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today’s Push for Performance (Oxford University Press, 2014), was a “powerful, fact-packed survey [that] is complex, thought-provoking, and urgent.” The Wall Street Journal wrote that the authors—Richard Scheffler, Ph.D., professor of health economics and public policy, and Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D., professor of psychology—“present some striking evidence that the answer lies, at least partly, in changes in educational policy.
Read more here.