The term "medicalization" was popularized by the Catholic philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich. Illich was troubled by the way in which what was formerly regarded as deviant behavior had come to ...

In Great Britain, for example, some 2-5 percent of school-aged children are now identified as having ADHD — a figure that’s up from less than 1 percent in the 1990s. MinnPost’s journalists are out in ...