Selling ADHD

Here's a video from another article on ADHD in children, found at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html.  It examines the rise in ADHD diagnoses as well as the rise in prescription drug use by children, as well as the commercial campaigns promoting these drugs.  Personally I believe that some children probably need medication, but the human brain is an incredible thing, and before we dope up our kids we should try every other avenue first.  I've written before about another article, entitled Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD, which is worth a read as well.  In France it's treated first as a sociological issue, and the article cites that less than .5% of French children are medicated, whereas 9% of kids in the United States are medicated.