Connecting the Dots on the ADHD Fad

Every once in a while a brilliant investigative journalist can get us back on track when we have been led badly astray. I hope that last Sunday's New York Times front page story, "The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder," by Alan Schwarz will have that kind of special societal impact. Schwartz has previously written a series of accurate and hard-hitting articles exposing the over-diagnosis of ADHD and the consequent careless and excessive use of stimulant medication to treat it. Now he connect...