Maybe any months ago during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, RFKJr said that “15% of American youth are now on Adderall or some other [attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder] medication.”
“We are not just overmedicating our children, we are overmedicating our entire population,” said Kennedy. “Half the pharmaceutical drugs on earth are now sold here.”
Now, let’s be clear, although at one point I wanted to be a pediatrician, that is not the field of medicine that I chose to go into. Ergo I have never diagnosed a case of ADHD, and do not know much about this malady.
From BlazeMedia:
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 7.1 million American children (approximately 1 in 9) aged 3-17 had ADHD diagnoses as of 2022. That’s up from two million in the mid-1990s. Over half of the children currently diagnosed with ADHD receive at least one ADHD medication.
Over the past decade, prescriptions for stimulants to remedy ADHD have skyrocketed — by 58% between 2012 and 2022. Most of the drugs dished out have been amphetamines, according to a 2023 document prepared for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Recently there was a damning admission in New York Times Magazine that may inspire new doubts about the credibility of the so-called experts advising the masses on matters of health, namely that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may not have a basis in biology after all.
That admission was not volunteered from some activist or critic but rather by the Dutch neuroscientist who apparently misled the world into thinking “A.D.H.D. is a disorder of the brain.”
In a piece titled “Have we been thinking about A.D.H.D. all wrong?” Paul Tough discussed the correlated explosion of ADHD diagnoses and Ritalin prescriptions in the 1990s — a trend, he noted, that was accompanied by criticism from parents and others concerned about the apparent campaign to load kids with methylphenidate and amphetamines.
Swanson is apparently not the only supposed ADHD expert now having significant doubts.
Edmund Sonuga-Barke, a researcher in psychiatry and neuroscience at King’s College London, said, “I’ve invested 35 years of my life trying to identify the causes of A.D.H.D., and somehow we seem to be farther away from our goal than we were when we started.”
I find it interesting that shortly after RFKJr raised questions about the marked increase in the diagnosis/treatment of A.D.H.D, that the New York Times Magazine comes out with a similar questioning article.
Perhaps this is more than just a coincidence.
Nuff said!
6/13/25
Californiacontrarian.com