via the ethical nag:
The medicalization of everyday life
Dr. Ben Goldacre, a British doctor writing his weekly Bad Science column in The Guardian last fall, told this disturbing cautionary tale.

“No. This story was unanimously ignored by the entire British news media, despite their preoccupation with anti-social behaviour, school performance and miracle cures, for one very simple reason: the research was not about a pill. It was about a cheap, practical parenting programme!”
And if it’s just a regular, non-drug, non-medical kind of treatment for bratty kid behaviour – like a cost-effective parenting programme – it’s not going to make money for anybody the way that a diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder can. read here
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