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ADHD medicine’s long-term safety still a question
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<blockquote data-quote="runawaybunny" data-source="post: 626341" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/02/us-adhd-medicine-safety-idUSKBN0DI1AX20140502" target="_blank"><strong>ADHD medicine’s long-term safety still a question - Reuters</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Scant research has been done on the long-term safety of drugs for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new analysis shows, though millions of American children have been taking them for decades.</p><p></p><p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 11 percent of American children between the ages of four and 17 - or 6.4 million - had been diagnosed with ADHD as of 2011. About half were taking drugs to treat the disorder.</p><p></p><p>“We have too few long-term studies on the effects of these medicines,” Dr. Sanford Newmark told Reuters Health. “There’s a big, big gap in our understanding of what the effects of these medicines might be. It’s worrisome.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="runawaybunny, post: 626341, member: 1"] [URL='http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/02/us-adhd-medicine-safety-idUSKBN0DI1AX20140502'][B]ADHD medicine’s long-term safety still a question - Reuters[/B][/URL] Scant research has been done on the long-term safety of drugs for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new analysis shows, though millions of American children have been taking them for decades. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 11 percent of American children between the ages of four and 17 - or 6.4 million - had been diagnosed with ADHD as of 2011. About half were taking drugs to treat the disorder. “We have too few long-term studies on the effects of these medicines,” Dr. Sanford Newmark told Reuters Health. “There’s a big, big gap in our understanding of what the effects of these medicines might be. It’s worrisome.” [/QUOTE]
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