Keith Conners News Today

A new article presents research suggesting that the diagnosis of ADHD is philosophically inadequate.

James D. Walsh reports on the Adderall shortage. Ascent Pharmaceuticals’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD medication crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.

New warning cites high potential for abuse and misuse of ADHD drugs that can lead to addiction, overdose, and death.

Another new study found as many as one in four students surveyed at middle schools and high schools reported misusing ADHD drugs in the previous year.

Debunking a recent study on ADHD and COVID-19: It suffers from a series of manipulations and spins inappropriate in scientific research.

In this chapter, Peter Gøtzsche discusses the problems with observational studies and other flaws in ADHD research.

Leading ADHD researchers outline four mistakes that turned ADHD from a description of behavior into a medical disease.

No longer confined to “problem kids”, diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are booming – but the condition remains widely misunderstood.

No longer confined to “problem children”, ADHD diagnoses are booming – yet it’s a condition that remains widely misunderstood.

The research is the latest to suggest the harms of diagnosis and drug treatment for ADHD outweigh benefits that are small, if any.