Sunday, January 6, 2008

Frontline: Medicating Kids

I just reviewed this Frontline program, Medicating Kids, on the use of drugs for what I consider the very spurious diagnosis of ADD & ADHD. There are so many problems of logic with these behaviors that get labelled diseases and it is upsetting that the Frontline piece isn't more critical. Unfortunately I've found that they are often sensationalist and much more mainstream than I think they think they are. I will use this in my class as a glimpse of the mainstream side of the issue, have students try to look at the way the program is skewed, and give my lecture from the more critical perspective...

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