
07/30/2025
“It’s not often that the New York Times acknowledges that it may have been complicit in decades of medical misdirection. But Paul Tough’s April 13, 2025, feature in the Times Magazine—’Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?’—marks a cultural and scientific inflection point. What Tough describes is nothing less than a collapse of the biomedical model of A.D.H.D. as we’ve known it—a model that has dominated research, practice, and parenting since the 1990s. Diagnoses have exploded. Medications like Ritalin and Adderall are handed out like candy. Yet, after 30 years of follow-up research, even the scientists who once built the case for pharmaceutical treatment now admit that the long-term benefits are fleeting, the biological evidence is weak, and the entire model of the disorder may be fundamentally flawed." – Matt McCoy, DC
As society begins to embrace a more individualized, empowering approach to health, chiropractic stands ready to lead with its foundational truth: the body is intelligent, and healing comes from within.
Keep reading “The Tipping Point: What Chiropractors Have Said all Along” by Matt McCoy, DC in the current issue of Pathways. Subscribe and access Issue 86 now: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/childrens-health-wellness/the-tipping-point-what-chiropractors-have-said-all-along.html