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Child Health: Drugs for ADHD found to have no benefits for hyperactive children
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
15 November 2007
Drugs commonly used to treat children with ADHD have no long-term effect, according to a new US study.
Findings show that stimulants such as Ritalin are no better than therapy and can stunt children's growth. The Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD has monitored the treatment of 600 children across the US since the 1990s. The report's co-author Professor William Pelham told the BBC, 'I think that we exaggerated the beneficial impact of medication in the first study. We had thought that children medicated longer would have better outcomes. That didn't happen to be the case.' He added, 'The children had a substantial decrease...
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