What's Behind the 53% rise in ADHD Diagnoses?
A widely read article in today's New York Times presents shocking new data from the Center for Disease control about the explosive surge in ADHD diagnoses among American children and teenagers. A whopping 11% of school-age children, or approximately 6.4 million children, have received a diagnosis of ADHD. This is a 16 per cent increase since 2007 and a 53 per cent rise in the last decade.
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