Quotes About Medicalized

ADHD is spreading like wildfire. It used to be confined to a small percentage of kids who had clear-cut problems that started at a very early age and caused them unmistakable difficulties in many situations. Then all manner of classroom disruption was medicalized and ADHD was applied so promiscuously that an amazing 10 percent of kids now qualify.

Taking care of a debilitated, elderly person in our medicalized era is an overwhelming combination of the technological and the custodial.