The latest information was issued by the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention.)
The number of diagnoses as well as the number of prescriptions to treat A.D.H.D. have soared.
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“Those are astronomical numbers. I’m floored,” said Dr. William Graf, a pediatric neurologist in New Haven and a professor at the Yale School of Medicine. He added, “Mild symptoms are being diagnosed so readily, which goes well beyond the disorder and beyond the zone of ambiguity to pure enhancement of children who are otherwise healthy
Read the New York Times article “A.D.H.D. Seen in 11% of U.S. Children as Diagnoses Rise” by Alan Schwarz, Sarah Cohen, and Allison Kopicki, published on March 31st, 2013:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/health/more-diagnoses-of-hyperactivity-causing-concern.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&hp