"We use amphetamines to conveniently modify the behaviour of bored boys because we're too stupid to construct our education systems in a manner that doesn't drive them mad. Hyperactivity is an iatrogenic disease created by schools. Boys should play way more than they do. They should play to the point of exhaustion in some sense every day. They'll quit when they've had enough. I bet your hyperactive son has no trouble paying attention when he's playing video games... that's worth thinking about." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeRh7l2zZnk "Iatrogenesis is the causation of a disease, a harmful complication, or other ill effect by any medical activity, including diagnosis, intervention, error, or negligence. First used in this sense in 1924, the term was introduced to sociology in 1976 by Ivan Illich, alleging that industrialized societies impair quality of life by overmedicalizing life. Iatrogenesis may thus include mental suffering via medical...