[mlo]

It is not just that Ritalin is over-prescribed. dead is right, ADHD is a fictional disease. It is just a further part of the trend of medicalizing behavior. The same factor figures in perceptions of substance abuse as a "disease" and in treatment of guns as an "epidemic".

[College Repub]

I'll agree with you that it may be a fictional disease. But how can you expalin the nonfictional results of the medication on the symptoms (regardless of whether they warrant a disease or not). Isn't it really a moot point?