The Fair Use Doctrine on ADHD Ads

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Some of these ads are look, so I read recently this book called ADHD Nation. And it's impossible to look at this without saying this is grotesquely unethical and it's going to work like gangbusters. There's another ad for an ADHD med with a smiling white mother and a smiling white seven or eight year old boy. Oh, conveying not very subtly that the medicine will take away the stigma and shame. You'll see the real person emerging underneath if you get rid of those annoying symptoms. Now, that's a huge assumption right there. Who wouldn't buy it? Right.

Ever since he was diagnosed as a kid, Adam has wondered if ADHD is a serious psychological condition, or a false diagnosis pushed by an overzealous industry. This week Dr. Stephen Hinshaw, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley is on the show to help answer these questions. You can check out his book The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today's Push for Performance at factuallypod.com/books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.