Wayne,
I used to think that, too -- until the first time I saw a child who was SO hyperactive that he was LITERALLY climbing the walls (picked him off the top of my bookcase three times in 20 minutes, as he used the shelves like steps on a ladder). I think, as a society, we are sometimes too quick to look for chemical solutions. But I don't discount the possibility of the problem being very real.
Dr. Jane Jarrow