elizabeth, explain this to me. what exactly are parents doing here? this group of pediatric neurologists got here and said, hey, we re notice that parns are coming in and saying they want their child to have a adhd drug, not because their child has adld, but because they want their child to do it better in school. even if you don t have adhd they will often help you focus better and they are homing their b student might become an a student. some parents go so far as google the signs of adhd and parrot them back to the doctor in the hopes he will diagnose them with adhd even when they don t have it. so, here s what s interesting. if you take a look at these numbers you will see that they just don t add up. so, the number of kids with adhd has gone up 21% over a certain period of time. the number of adhd prigss has gone up 46%. in other words, there s a big chunk of kids who don t have adhd who are getting adhd medications.