I wholeheartedly agree with Ronson’s conclusion, noted below in an article by Anson Cameron for The Age:
The most important part of Ronson’s book is when he reveals how easy it is to set off a false epidemic in psychiatry and how many kids in the US are now prescribed drugs to cure the weirdness once known as childhood. A nationwide effort seems under way to subdue the US’s more spirited nippers with a triple dose of whatever new and improved barbiturate is wowing the market. To tranquilise Tom Sawyer into painting his own fence, as it were. Oh, America.
