ADHD and “The Merchants of Speed”
Pediatrician and UCSF professor Lawrence Diller has issued the fourth of a four-part memoir on Huffington Post, recounting the rise of ADHD medicating and...
“ADHD treatment market value to reach $9.9 bn by 2020”
According to business intelligence firm GBI Research, the ADHD medication market will rise in value from $6.9 billion in 2013 to $9.9 billion by...
“High-volume Care, Not Good Care”
WSJ Live interviews cardiologist Dr. Sandeep Jauhar about his new book, Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician. Jauhar describes "the perverse incentives of...
Greenberg on DSM: “There are many… who wonder about the sanity…”
"There are many practitioners, including psychiatrists, who wonder about the sanity and the soundness of the enterprise in general," Gary Greenberg tells the Australian...
Not an Onion Study: Loss of a Loved One Increases Risk of Psychological Distress
When a loved one dies, some people are more likely to become very sad, drink more, and be diagnosed by mental health professionals as...
Employment Lawyers Worried about DSM Diagnostic Expansions
An article in HRHero, a legal resource for human resource professionals, expresses concern about the expanding diagnostic categories in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual...
What’s driving the increase in child medicating?
National Institute of Mental Health Director Thomas Insel suggests in his blog that the fact 4.3% of American children are taking psychostimulants may not...