Baseball Not Paying 'Attention' to ADD?

ESPN had an article up today stating that:

"Baseball authorized nearly 8 percent of its players to use drugs for ADHD
last season, which allowed them to take otherwise banned stimulants.

A total of 106 exemptions for banned drugs were given to major leaguers
claiming attention deficit hyperactivity disorder from the end of the 2007
season until the end of the 2008 season, according to a report released Friday
by the sport's independent drug-testing administrator.

That's up from 103 therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) for ADHD in 2007,
according to figures cited by baseball officials before a congressional
committee last year.

"This is incredible. This is quite spectacular. There seems to be an
epidemic of ADD in major league baseball," said Dr. Gary Wadler, chairman of the
committee that determines the banned-substances list for the World Anti-Doping
Agency."

Baseball has/had a steroid problem, and I suspect that other sports, most notably football, have an as bad if not much worse drug problem. Now that baseball thankfully upped the testing policy, it shouldn't be a surprise that players will try other means. The article goes on to state that between 3-5 percent of children have ADHD. It is possible then to have almost 8 percent of baseball players to have ADHD? Is there something about baseball that allows people with ADHD to excel? That's highly unlikely.

It's not hard to be prescribed ADD medication. From personal experience, I feel I was diagnosed with it just so the doctor could feel they did something. They looked at my tests and basically said "well I'm not sure I'd call it ADD, but looking at his grades I'd say he has it." It was the weakest diagnosed disorder I think I'll ever witness.

The point is you could probably twist anyone into having ADD. I don't mean to say it's not a legitimate disorder and maybe I'm insulting some doctors here, but who has never showed an instance of not being able to pay attention? The steroid problem clearly showed players will do ll they can, especially medication wise, to get better. If ADD medication helps their performance they will try to get prescribed, and from my experience it doesn't seem difficult to get that prescription. So no, there's no way that by coincidence baseball players have ADD more at a way higher percentage than the normal population. I don't know if it's a major problem or just a loophole that if closed off will start another one.