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[SIZE=-1]When the league banned these drugs, an amazing thing happened. The number of players claiming and obtaining "therapeutic use" exemptions for stimulants nearly quadrupled from 28 to 103. The basis of their claims? They all had attention "deficit" disorder. Accordingly, they were entitled to attention-boosting drugs.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Among children, the prevalence of ADHD is estimated at 3 percent to 5 percent. Among adults, the rate of diagnosis is between 1 percent and 3.5 percent. But among pro baseball players, the disease seems epidemic. The league has just announced that the number of "therapeutic use" exemptions based on ADHD increased again last year from 103 to 106. That means 8 percent of major-league players have ADHDtwice the rate among children and three to eight times the rate among adults.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]How can ADHD multiply fourfold in a sport in a single year? How can it become three times as prevalent in that sport as in the adult population? Is it contagious? Of course not. ADHD is a psychological diagnosis. Like post-traumatic stress disorder, which we talked about Friday, it's open to interpretation in any given patient. Three doctors may say you don't have it. A fourth may say you do.[/SIZE]
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http://www.slate.com/id/2208429/&cid=0&ei=KH5rSY2_ApDKlQS3laHPDQ&usg=AFQjCNH-TGCi_iViyP8j420_LiWn7S9o9g
[SIZE=-1]Slate [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]When the league banned these drugs, an amazing thing happened. The number of players claiming and obtaining "therapeutic use" exemptions for stimulants nearly quadrupled from 28 to 103. The basis of their claims? They all had attention "deficit" disorder. Accordingly, they were entitled to attention-boosting drugs.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Among children, the prevalence of ADHD is estimated at 3 percent to 5 percent. Among adults, the rate of diagnosis is between 1 percent and 3.5 percent. But among pro baseball players, the disease seems epidemic. The league has just announced that the number of "therapeutic use" exemptions based on ADHD increased again last year from 103 to 106. That means 8 percent of major-league players have ADHDtwice the rate among children and three to eight times the rate among adults.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]How can ADHD multiply fourfold in a sport in a single year? How can it become three times as prevalent in that sport as in the adult population? Is it contagious? Of course not. ADHD is a psychological diagnosis. Like post-traumatic stress disorder, which we talked about Friday, it's open to interpretation in any given patient. Three doctors may say you don't have it. A fourth may say you do.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
http://www.slate.com/id/2208429/&cid=0&ei=KH5rSY2_ApDKlQS3laHPDQ&usg=AFQjCNH-TGCi_iViyP8j420_LiWn7S9o9g
