Re: Geographical distribution

[Wgreen]

Thanks for your response.

I’m just curious. I once heard a lecture by a (European) academic who seemed to suggest that ADD was largely a North American phenomenon, implying that American (and Canadian) doctors were over-diagnosing it, creating an fictitious epidemic. In his next sentence, he derided what he viewed as the over-use of stimulants to treat it.

Maybe this was just his own bias. And I do know from experience that clinicians in the U.S. and other countries don’t always see eye to eye on a range of issues. So I was concerned that reliable international statistics might not exist.

If they do, and if they show interesting patterns, it would be fascinating to speculate about the ramifications.

By the way, I know a Ukrainian family, and they indeed have been ravaged by ADD. Interesting.

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