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A global surge in ADHD diagnosis has more to do with marketing than medicine

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Sorry, guys…I’ve been busy working and on a couple of other projects.  I’ll be back in person tomorrow, with luck.

In the meantime:

Many websites promoting ADHD drugs offer checklists with questions like these:

  • Do you fidget a lot?
  • Is it hard for you to concentrate?
  • Are you disorganized at work and home?
  • Do you start projects and then abandon them?

    “These checklists turn all kinds of different behaviors into medical problems,” Conrad says. “The checklists don’t distinguish what is part of the human condition and what is a disease.”

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/bu-ags111814.php

Huge Study Finds Brain Networks Connected to Teen Drug Abuse

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A recent study has indicated that teen drinking is strongly related to problems in the neural network that controls impulsive behavior.  Professionals have long known that the two go together, but had no indication of which came first.

This study settles that, and other questions regarding ADD and drinking.

Faced with a choice about smoking or drinking, the 14-year-old with a less functional impulse-regulating network will be more likely to say, “yeah, gimme, gimme, gimme!” says Garavan, “and this other kid is saying, ‘no, I’m not going to do that.'”

Read more at Science Daily