Treating ADHD Is Experimental

The distinction between research and practice is important in the discussion of treating children or adults who have been diagnosed with ADHD.  As medical science does not understand the so-called disease process in ADHD, its treatment may be considered experimental.  Moreover, as medical science does not understand the action of the medications used in treating ADHD, the drug treatment should likewise be considered experimental.  Combined, we have a set of behaviors labeled as a disease where no one has been able to identify any brain abnormality, being treated with a drug whose action no one really understands in humans.  While millions of people have been "treated" with perhaps billions of doses of medication, it does not change the fact that we are still dealing with the unknown.  An unknown "disease" being treated with drugs full of unknowns sounds like experimentation and should be treated as such.

David M. Tyler, Ph.D and Kurt P. Grady, Pharm.D in ADHD: Deceptive Diagnosis, pg. 142