[GovernmentShrinker]

Perhaps the "proper" way to treat ADD is to take kids out of school at age 7-8 and put them to work 12 hours a day on farms and in factories. Trouble is, this just doesn't work in a modern economy, and we're just not prepared as a society to go back to the days of no cars, no computers, no sophisticated medical diagnostics, etc. Hopefully, a non-drug solution can be found, but in the meantime drugs may be the best answer for a lot of children and adults.

[thoughtomator]

I don't accept that as a sensible answer at all. I grew up in this information age society, and I exhibited nearly every symptom that is listed for ADD. Somehow, without being drugged up, I ended up becoming a normal human being with excellent mathematical and language skills. The same is true for most of the people I grew up with.

Normal childhood is being diagnosed as a disease. Humanity has been declared abnormal and subject to forced medication.

How children act today has no relationship to farms and 12 hour workdays. It is clearly traceable to television, an educational system which fails to either teach or challenge, and an abdication of parental responsibility.