This cannot be right. In the history of science and medicine, this would not be a valid definition of disease. Failing to prove that ADHD is a disease, they seek to re-define the word 'disease'. The US Department of Education, absolving itself of controlling the children and rendering them literate, coerces the labeling and drugging. Once Ritalin or any psychotropic drug courses through their brain and body, they are, for the first time, physically, neurologically and biologically, abnormal.
Mental illnesses are physical illnesses.
We know the chemical disorders we are treating. You should resign. I'm confident we'll confirm the case for organic causes. Baughman FA Jr. Letter to Attorney General, Janet Reno, April 15, 1998. Testimony of Rep. Christopher Shays, R-CN at the Hearing of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, July 15, 1996.