TIME Magazine
By Megan Gibson
June 15, 2010
It turns out you don’t need to have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in order to get the prescription drugs that treat it – you just have to know how to fake it.
A new study released in the journal Psychological Assessment has found that the initial self-report checklists used for ADHD diagnoses are actually quite easily faked by anyone who has a basic knowledge of the disorder.
Since Adderall and Ritalin abuse is quite common on college campuses and kids these days are quite adept at Googling things, this poses a problem for medical professionals. And while the study did show that follow-up tests were a bit more successful at weeding out feigned cases, they still weren’t hacker-proof.
Read entire article:Â http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/15/study-faking-adhd-is-easy-so-is-getting-adhd-drugs/
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Thanks for the byline… So true. Unfortunately, what psychiatrists do in actuality is just so unbelievable that I don’t think the public will ever get it… Hey, I know, let’s give little children speed, tell them it’s “medicine” and make them take it every day for the rest of their lives. That’ll be great! Ugh, I usually avoid articles like this nowadays, because it becomes clear quite quickly that psychiatric “care” is a nightmare…
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