Doctors have valuable skills and education. But these days they lack chochma.
The variable behind the prescription of all these drugs is hugely economic.
There is no way doctors are writing out the same scripts, so quickly, to such a large degree, not knowing what is going on with their colleagues and the pharmaceutical companies seeking profits.
In a land where tobacco companies are allowed to sell their deadly poison, the pharmaceutical companies have free reign to put out whatever they want, charge what they want, and get away with what they want unless they settle out of court. The only reason they run tests, etc., is because they make money on those projects. TONS of money.
Are people being drugged too easily? Absolutely! Are children being thrown into the pit of this alleged ADD/ADHD too quickly? Absolutely!
Hopefully no one needs such a thing, but hospitals send people home based solely on economic reasons rather than medical. Well, it is similar with doctors who are prone to find a pill for each person’s ailment; the reason is economics (profit).