Doctor Explains What's Really Causing the ADHD Explosion

The Kim Iversen Show LIVE | September 2, 2026 The Lindsay Clancy case sparked a bigger question Kim couldn't let go of: if the drugs she was on carry black-box warnings for suicidal and homicidal ideation, and the pharmaceutical companies knew that, why are they not sitting in that courtroom alongside her? Kim is joined by Dr. Shannon Kroner — clinical psychologist, special education expert, and author of *Making America Healthy Again* — for an uncomfortable conversation about America's medicated society. They cover why the US has 28% of global diagnoses but consumes 65% of prescription drugs, the 7 million American children currently diagnosed with ADHD (over half on medication), and the vicious cycle where a drug's side effects get treated with another drug, whose side effects get treated with another — a cocktail never tested in combination, just like vaccines given three at a time. Kim and Shannon get into what's actually driving the diagnoses: overcrowded classrooms where overwhelmed teachers can't say "you're a bad parent" so they say "your child has ADHD," the quick-fix culture where no one can afford to heal, the food dyes and microplastics and hormone disruptors, the hormones in meat that Kim traces through her Vietnamese family's generational size jump, and school shooters who are almost always on some kind of psychiatric medication. The chemical-imbalance theory that sold antidepressants for four decades? Debunked — but quietly, because nobody advertised the correction. They also dig into the measles panic in Pennsylvania: the Amish newborn the governor called an "unvaccinated measles death" whose coroner actually listed cause of death as a ruptured spleen. And the vaccine-autism-Tylenol thread, the chicken pox party Kim's family threw to get natural immunity, the granola mom who went from liberal hippie to conservative MAHA mom — and why this should stop being political entirely and just be about what's healthiest for kids.

Dr. Shannon Kroner is a clinical psychologist, special educator, and author of *Making America Healthy Again* (out October), *I'm Unvaccinated and That's Okay*, and *Let's Be Critical Thinkers*.

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