evidence: This is a very compelling read about the history of ADHD and the pharmaceutical industry. Parts of it are really frightening...statistics showing huge percentages of school age kids (1 in 3 boys enrolled in Medicaid in Louisiana!) being medicated in some parts of the country. I have no trouble believing that Big Pharma wants everyone on expensive meds for life. The author does a good job of making the case that ADHD is a real diagnosis but that the increasing prevalence can't be right. [...] The book spotlights three people: the doctor who first discovered the disorder, a girl who was misdiagnosed with ADHD and a teen who faked ADHD in order to get medication to help him focus in high school. Along the way, other prominent doctors and researchers are discussed who played a role in the history of ADHD. The author spends a lot of time on the influence of pharmaceutical companies who manipulated information about ADHD to turn a profit. From misleading advertisements, first to doctors and then to consumers which downplayed medication's addictiveness and omitted important side effects. They also paid researchers to produce studies on medication, giving the researches and incentive to find in pharma's favor. Also discussed was the very subjective nature of the ADHD diagnosis, which was often diagnosed in as little as 5 minutes by doctors who had very little training on the disorder or its medications.