ADD/ADHD: The Misdiagnosis Epidemic There is an epidemic in this country today. You will not see any reports on it on the evening news. You will not read a story about it in your newspaper. However, you may hear little things about it here and there. You may be talking to a friend, who in the course of a conversation says, " My child has been having trouble in school. I brought him/her to …showed first 75 words of 1394 total…

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