The Order of the Arrow was founded by Dr. E. Urner Goodman and Carroll A. Edson in 1915 at the Treasure Island Camp of the Philadelphia Council, Boy Scouts of America. It became an official program experiment in 1922 and was approved as part of the Scouting program in 1934.
1 The manual's fourth edition recognizes the disorder as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, with three subgroups. Â·. 2  1996. 3  The second drug to treat ADHD symptoms, Adderall (dextroamphetamine and amphetamine) is approved by the FDA.
In the second edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as DSM-II (1968), the condition was called Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood. It was in the 1980 DSM-III that ADD (Attention-Deficit Disorder) with or without hyperactivity was introduced. In 1987 this label was further refined to ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in the DSM-III-R and subsequent editions, including the current DSM-5.