ADD Grows Up
“ADD medications are becoming a fad, and Caplan says the seductive marketing campaigns are designed mainly to sell drugs to people — whether they need them or not.
‘Doctors these days feel pretty besieged. And a lot of them are gonna say, ‘I’m not gonna fight with my patients. They come in, they want something I think is trivial, I don’t believe it’s gonna hurt them, I’ll write the script,” says Caplan . . .
. . . But that fact is Americans demand cures for everything from shyness to sexual dysfunction. They believe in better living through chemistry — a drug-riddled behavioral utopia where all problems can be solved by a pill.”
