DailyMail Must Apologize and Provide Correction for Dangerous ADHD Misinformation Article
May 13, 2025
On May 5th an article that ran on the Daily.mail.co.uk website for nearly a week and was so filled with misinformation about the alleged psychiatric disorder ADHD that AbleChild is calling out the writer and asking the publishers to print an apology and a correction.
The article written by Cassidy Morrison (Senior Health Reporter) titled “I learned the horrifying risks of ‘miracle’ ADHD drugs and stopped taking them…but it was too late,” provides information about the alleged ADHD disorder and its alleged treatment. The problem, though, is that Morrison is just wrong on both counts. Too often the press gets away with writing information about mental health diagnosing and drugs that simply is not based in science. Enough is enough. The misinformation must stop.
Morrison’s article focuses on a woman who reportedly did not have the alleged ADHD disorder but took ADHD drugs like Ritalin, Adderall, and Vyvanse and later regretted taking the drugs as the subject of the article believed the drugs caused her heart damage. Fine. But the problem isn’t with the subject of the article. The problem is with author Morrison’s explanations of ADHD and its alleged drug “treatments.”