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Cargando... ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemicpor Alan Schwarz
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Written by an NYT reporter and built from over a thousand interviews with doctors, parents, students, and researchers, Schwarz compellingly illustrates the need for alarm at the nation's current state of affairs with all things ADHD and the subsequent diagnosis crisis. As high as 15% of the population is now being diagnosed with ADHD with no end in sight. Big pharmaceutical companies often subsidize the research studies and diagnostic categories are as subjective as ever. Without a defeatist attitude, Schwarz emphatically makes the case that there is a need for action, though it will take time to work through all of the complexities. Increased education in the medical schools, greater diagnostic exclusivity and specificity, along with reasonable and compassionate care for children are a few measures he highlights at the end of the book. ( ) ADHD is something that I've dealt with since a child that runs in my family and has passed down to other family members. I've been skeptical of medications as a treatment and after reading this, I still am. The book is a real eye opener. It's Amazing how many people are taking these meds-it's not just children, but college students and adults as well. What's even more shocking are the different disorders that they are coming up with now that branch from ADHD like SCT. I would recommend this to anyone who has an interest or deals with ADHD. We'll written and not too pompous. 5***** Everyone who is dealing with ADHD would benefit from this book. It narrates the history of the identification of the disorder and the development of treatments for it. Schwarz exposes the role of pharmaceutical companies in promoting diagnoses of the disease and reliance on medications to treat it. Although he is not totally opposed to the use of medications, he describes their potential dangers and argues that they are overprescribed. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"A groundbreaking and definitive account of the widespread misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder--and its serious effects on children, adults, and society. More than 1 in 7 American children are getting diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)--three times what experts have said is appropriate--making it one of the most mishandled and debated conditions in medicine. The numbers are rising every year. Now doctors and Big Pharma are targeting adults and the rest of the world to get diagnosed with ADHD and take medications that will "transform their lives." In ADHD Nation, Alan Schwarz takes readers behind the scenes to show the roots and rise of this cultural and medical phenomenon: There's the father of ADHD, Dr. Keith Conners, who spends fifty years pioneering the disorder and use of drugs like Ritalin before realizing his role in what he now calls "a national disaster of dangerous proportions"; a troubled young girl and studious, teenaged boy who get entangled in the growing ADHD machine and take medications that cause them serious problems; and a pharmaceutical industry that egregiously overpromotes the disorder and earns billions from the mishandling of children (and now adults). While demonstrating that ADHD is real and can be successfully medicated, Schwarz sounds an alarm and urges America to wake up and address this growing national problem"--
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