ADHD and “The Merchants of Speed”

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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”

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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”

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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…”

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"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

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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

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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?

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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...