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Citation: Gander, Maclean. "Column: Is ADHD Overdiagnosed?" USA Today. Gannett, 8 Dec. 2012. Web. 27 Feb. 2013. The questions asks about the treatment of ADHD. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is a disorder that is diagnosed on subjective impressions of symptoms. This means that pediatricians can diagnose children with ADHD and put them on medication based strictly on intuition. The problem with these medications is that they have serious side effects. Also students diagnosed with ADHD live with being singled out of regular school environment. Another problem with this disoder is that the number of students diagnosed goes up everyday; in fact in a couple of decades, at this rate, 1 in 5 students will be diagnosed. The author MacLean gander also talks of how medication has really helped some children diagnosed with this disorder. MacLean finishes by saying how the problem is real and if school systems are not changed to fit the needs of these children, they will suffer life altering consequences.

I think that this is not only a good health topic, but a very controversial topic. I find it hard to believe that people may believe that ADHD is not actually a real disorder. Though it may be easily faked, because there is no biological symtoms that may suggest that a person has this disorder there are physical ones. My friends brother has ADHD and he said that the symtoms were really bad nausea, diaria and suicidal thoughts. He immediately got off the medicine but never went to see about his disorder again. This made high school and getting goods grades very difficult. This is why it is so difficult to decide what to do about this situation, because there is no middle way. I think that ADHD is a serious disorder. Because of the growing diagnoses, the education system will have to be changed to accommodate the needs of these students.

Schwarz, Alan. "Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions." The New York Times. The New York Times, 03 Feb. 2013. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/us/concerns-about-adhd-practices-and-amphetamine-addiction.html?pagewanted=all Richard Fee, aged 24, committed suicide after failing to renew a prescription for a drug called Adderall. Aderall is a medication for those affected by A.D.H.D, but it helps people acquire tunnel-like focus, thus leading to growing numbers of students or people who think they need help to fake systems to get this drug. He was an athletic, college class president, and aspiring medical student who faked having symptoms to his doctor. His doctor continued to supply him with the drug until his parents told the doctor to stop. Richard continued to receive a prescriptions. After becoming delusional and violent, and spending a week in a psychiatric hospital, Richard received 90 more days of his prescription. He hanged himself two weeks after it expired.

The fact that people have to pretend to have a disorder just to get a drug is both wrong and inhumane. I feel like they aren't educated enough to know what they're putting into their bodies. Although Richard was a medical student, maybe he didn't know what addiction felt like, and once he was under the influence of drugs, he couldn't control himself. One thing that I think should come under question is the manner in which people decide if someone has a disorder or not. It's not a good thing that someone was able to fool an educated doctor. Now I know there probably isn't any concrete way to prove to someone that you have a disorder unless the symptoms are physical, however, there should probably be some more screening or testing for these people to make sure that they have what they say they have. Other than that, this is just another sad story, and it's unfortunate that such a successful young man with a long road ahead of him would kill himself like this.