To be fair, on this I think that he is right, in that ADHD is overdiagnosed in children from 'deprived' households. the reasoning behind my thinking - Well I was a teacher, and my brother currently is a teacher (a bloody good one as well), and the local education authorities have made it well known that every child diagnosed with ADHD is more funds for the school, and more child support for the parent. Awful I agree, and yes, some kids are ADHD, but at the moment a stupidly high number of children are being medicated into the ground for the sake of bigger budgets for schools, and bigger handouts for parents. Not that ADHD doesn't exist, but the distribution of this disease is hideously skewed towards the lower incomes, which tends to raise a few eyebrows about the diagnostic proceedure for spotting it... As far as I can remember NHSBLOGDOC has a similar view to this.