{"id":3195,"date":"2014-01-19T01:56:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T00:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2014-01-19T01:56:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T00:56:33","slug":"an-article-from-the-new-york-times-on-the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2014\/01\/19\/an-article-from-the-new-york-times-on-the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"an article from the New York Times on &#8220;The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a title=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/15\/health\/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/15\/health\/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/15\/health\/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-\/Hyperaktivit\u00e4tsst\u00f6rung\" href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-\/Hyperaktivit\u00e4tsst\u00f6rung\">https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-\/Hyperaktivit\u00e4tsst\u00f6rung<\/a>\u00a0= ADHS (in German)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 Behind that growth has been drug company marketing that has stretched the image of classic A.D.H.D. to include relatively normal behavior like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">carelessness<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">impatience<\/span>, and has often overstated the pills\u2019 benefits. \u2026<br \/>\n\u2026\u00a0A medical education video sponsored by Shire portrays a physician making a diagnosis of the disorder in an adult in a six-minute conversation, after which the doctor recommends medication. \u2026<br \/>\n\u2026\u00a0The American Psychiatric Association, which receives significant financing from drug companies, has gradually loosened the official criteria for the disorder to include common childhood behavior like \u201cmakes careless mistakes\u201d or \u201coften has difficulty waiting his or her turn.\u201d \u2026<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.2631578947\">\u2026 Few dispute that classic A.D.H.D., historically estimated to affect 5 percent of children, is a legitimate disability that impedes success at school, work and personal life. Medication often assuages the severe impulsiveness and inability to concentrate, allowing a person\u2019s underlying drive and intelligence to emerge. \u2026<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.2631578947\">\u2026\u00a0A magazine ad for Concerta had a grateful mother saying, \u201cBetter test scores at school, more chores done at home, an independence I try to encourage, a smile I can always count on.\u201d A 2009 ad for Intuniv, Shire\u2019s nonstimulant treatment for A.D.H.D., <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">showed a child in a monster suit<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.2631578947\"> taking off his hairy mask to reveal his adorable smiling self. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">There\u2019s a great kid in there<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.2631578947\">,\u201d the text read.<br \/>\n<\/span>\u201cThere\u2019s no way in God\u2019s green earth we would ever promote\u201d a controlled substance like Adderall directly to consumers, Mr. Griggs said as he was shown several advertisements. \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">You\u2019re talking about a product that\u2019s having a major impact on brain chemistry.<\/span> Parents are very susceptible to this type of stuff.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly instructed drug companies to withdraw such ads for being false and misleading, or exaggerating the effects of the medication. Many studies, often sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, have determined that untreated A.D.H.D. was associated with later-life problems. But no science determined that stimulant treatment has the overarching benefits suggested in those ads, the F.D.A. has pointed out in numerous warning letters to manufacturers since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Shire agreed last February to pay $57.5 million in fines to resolve allegations of improper sales and advertising of several drugs, including Vyvanse, Adderall XR and Daytrana, a patch that delivers stimulant medication through the skin. Mr. Casola of Shire declined to comment on the settlement because it was not fully resolved. \u2026<br \/>\nThe idea of unleashing children\u2019s potential is attractive to teachers and school administrators, who can be lured by A.D.H.D. drugs\u2019 ability <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">to subdue some of their most rambunctious and underachieving students<\/span>. Some have provided parents with pamphlets to explain the disorder and the promise of stimulants. \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had gotten pointed to this article, because I had mentioned &#8220;somebody&#8217;s disposition&#8221; (let&#8217;s call &#8220;somebody&#8221; simply &#8220;G&#8221;!). So what do I think about the article? (I am asked for feedback.)<\/p>\n<p>I personally always doubted G&#8217;s disposition for A.D.H.D. \u2013 I actually always assigned the responsibility for his rampant behaviour to his &#8220;<em>near anti-authoritarian\u00a0hippie ancestry<\/em>&#8221; (i.e. his mother). \u00a0G&#8217;s parents\u00a0never got advised by school or childcare staff or his\u00a0paediatricians to treat him with drugs. There was only one pupils&#8217; parents party, when one classmate&#8217;s mother (an auxiliary pharmacist by profession) somehow \u00a0complained about G&#8217;s behaviour towards her son and other classmates and somehow urgently asked G&#8217;s parents to let him enjoy \u00a0beneficial drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Reading this article I understand there are well some 5 % kids with A.D.H.D., but the health industry is interested in selling their goods to far more than those 5 %. The health industry got fined by the FDA, but that doesn&#8217;t disturb the running business at all. (So far for tonight.)\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/15\/health\/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-\/Hyperaktivit\u00e4tsst\u00f6rung\u00a0= ADHS (in German) https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder \u2026 \u2026 Behind that growth has been drug company marketing that has stretched the image of classic A.D.H.D. to include relatively normal behavior like carelessness and impatience, and has often overstated the pills\u2019 benefits. \u2026 \u2026\u00a0A medical education video sponsored by Shire portrays a physician making a diagnosis of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[864],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adhd"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-Px","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}