Tom Cruise Says I Told You So

January 29, 2012 11:58 AM

"To date, no study has found any long-term benefit of attention-deficit medication on academic performance, peer relationships or behavior problems." L. Alan Sroufe, a professor of psychology at University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development, writes in today's New York Times about the ineffectiveness and lack of supporting evidence or a viable theory to justify using drugs to treat ADD, and instead suggests most diagnosed children have problems as a result of their environment and personal history, factors being largely ignored by a medical establishment that's certain mental illnesses are inborn and biochemical in nature (previously, previously, previously)
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