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🚨 Breaking Newsvia BMJ Latest
In the Channel 4 documentary The Great ADHD Myth broadcast on 18 August 2026, psychiatrist and journalist Max Pemberton questioned whether attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a “genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”1 The documentary has contributed misinformation and confusion to the already fraught discourse around ADHD.A wealth of robust research supports the view that ADHD is a well established, extensively evidenced neurodevelopmental condition.2 The disorder is associated with serious adverse outcomes, including substance misuse, suicide, and premature mortality.2…
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Source: The Great ADHD Myth documentary is misleading and misinformed
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