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Perhaps we should not look to The Atlantic to make medical treatment and standards recommendations. The article is a good summary of the situation, makes a good case for complicating factors (comorbidities in adult adhd, rogue prescribers in telehealth), and is largely fact focused.

That said, the answer to "what is the solution" is that it takes time to figure out what the best treatment plans are and feedback success and failure into diagnostics. It is a process of never-ending improvement. For example depression was known to Hippocrates and despite that multiple thousands of years of history we still don't have a 100% success rate diagnostics and treatment for it. Adult ADHD is only about 10 years old. Odds are by the time it grows up the current symptoms will lessen. But in the meantime, people seeking treatment for it should be aware that they are part of an ongoing experiment, i.e. they are in the Wild West.