Psychologist wonders if society is drugging kids without reason
Challenges 'science' of medicating millions for ADHD
By Bob UnruhPublished March 3, 2023 at 3:23pm
A licensed clinical psychologist who serves as a research associate at the Natural Language Processing lab at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is openly questioning whether today's society is drugging children – without reason.
Yaakov Ophir has specific expertise in child therapy, parent training, and family interventions, and his PhD comes from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published 20 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
It is in a commentary at the Brownstone Institute web pages that he doubts the "scientific" justification for the medications used for ADHD.
"'As glasses help people focus their eyes to see,' medical experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics rule, 'medications help children with ADHD focus their thoughts better and ignore distractions,'" he noted.
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That's the basis, he explained, for the lifelong plan to administer stimulants for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
But there are problems, he noted.
Stimulants, first, are frequently abused, despite being compared to harmless medical aids.
Then, he said, there's a "huge" problem.
"ADHD is currently the most common childhood disorder in Western-oriented countries. Its ever-increasing rates are now skyrocketing. The documented prevalence of ADHD is not about 3 percent, as it used to be when the disorder was first introduced in 1980. In 2014, a survey by the U'S' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that over 20 percent of 12-year-old boys were diagnosed with this 'lifelong condition,'" he said.
That leaves "hundreds of millions of children around the world" eligible for medications branded Ritalin, Concerta, Adderall or others.
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