ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (810 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501105922 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He and his family live in New York City. His work was profiled in The New Yorker and honored with a George Polk Award, the Associated Press Sports Editors Award for Project Reporting (three times), and the 2013 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award from the American Statistical Association. Alan Schwarz is a former Pulitzer Prize–nominated investigative reporter for The New York Times whose a
The numbers rise every year. “In this powerful, necessary book, Alan Schwarz exposes the dirty secrets of the growing ADHD epidemic” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), including how the father of ADHD, Dr. While demonstrating that ADHD is real and can be medicated when appropriate, Schwarz sounds a long-overdue alarm and urges America to address this growing national health crisis. Schwarz has done a fine job on a maddening topic, and everyone who’s interested in hyperactivity, attention spans, stimulants, and the current state of American health care should grab a copy” (New York magazine).. “A
Schwarz is sounding an alarm for a fire that looks nowhere near abating."—The New York Times Book Review"This eye-opening book should be a hit with drug-industry skeptics and worried parents who want to read a well-reported, definitive guide to this misunderstood and overly medicated disorder." —Booklist"Mr. Schwarz has done a fine job on a maddening topic, and everyone who’s interested in hyperactivity, attention spans, stimulants, and the current state of American health care should grab a copy."—New York Magazine"A dazzling piece of journalism, based on extensive research and an enormous number of interviewsan
"He Nails it!" according to Andrew Sachs. Alan hits the nail on the head with what's happening in America and our kids. As parents of a wonderful ADHD young man, we struggled for years to get our son help. My wife's a wonderfully talented teacher and we worked together to get him the help he needed and thought the medicine was actually helping (it does remove symptoms!) but, in reality it was paint over rust sold to us by the amazingly strong, self-reinforcing ecosystem Schwarz details in his book.Everything I knew to be true about ADHD before I read the book were either in the book or I realiz. A Must Read for Parents of Kids All Ages An incredible expose on the pharma industry and its push to make ADHD medications a multi-billion dollar business. While i'm sure all pharma companies heavily promote their products, it just seems more seedy when the target customer is a kid and the product is an addictive medication. Schwarz tells a gripping story, with the facts from the history of the diagnosis and the progression of the pharmacological treatments, to gripping stories of individual kids and adults who suffered from the after effects. Schwarz is clear that many children and adults are. Good but needs a good editor I had high hopes for this book. I was convinced on reading a few reviews and knowing something of the author's other work that this book would lead me to understand the history of ADHD, the heavy pushing of drug companies and how we got from there to here in this moment in time. The problem is that for most of this book, there is story after story after story (almost all short) of descriptions of kids and what they and their parents went through. These stories and the running dialog of doctors, drug companies, and court cases makes reading the whole boo