False ADHD Epidemic Overdosing Children

by James Davies / The Times of London
Published at 12:01AM, May 6 2013

Is ADHD a disease? The manual used by psychiatrists the world over says so. But what if that manual is wrong? Cracked lifts the lid on just how psychiatrists decide what is a medical condition and what isn’t ... and how inclusion in their DSM manual opens the door for drugs companies to make huge profits from new diseases. In this extract, James Davies shows how they could have made ADHD a false epidemic.