Re: Faking ADHD – Time Magazine

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GG, the thesis of the Time piece is that people are lying to doctors in order to get ADD/ADHD meds that will help them perform better in class or the office. While it doesn’t seem reasonable or cost-efficient to administer polygraph tests to every patient who walks through the door, researchers are suggesting there may be techniques clinicians can employ to help weed out the fakers.

We know that many doctors are disposed to prescribe what patients want (thus all those pharma ads on TV, at least in the U.S.). So all clinicians may not have clean hands. But the main purpose of the research cited in the piece was to reveal the scope of a fraud being perpetrated by PATIENTS.

Unfortunately, the article is sure to give additional ammunition to all those out there who believe the disorder we call ADD/ADHD does not really exist.

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