ADHD
Conspiracy theories tagged "ADHD."
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ADHD as Pharmaceutical Invention
The claim that ADHD is a manufactured or vastly overdiagnosed condition created to expand the market for stimulant drugs, examining the evidence for overdiagnosis, pharma influence, and the Leon Eisenberg deathbed claim.
1970 · United States · Leon Eisenberg, Peter Breggin, Keith Conners
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Psychiatric Overdiagnosis & Disease Creation
The partially substantiated critique that DSM diagnostic criteria have been systematically loosened to create larger patient populations for pharmaceutical intervention, advanced by psychiatrists like Allen Frances.
1961 · United States · Allen Frances, DSM, pharmaceutical industry