RE: 10 year study of stimulants in children

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One of the side effects of Strattera is anorexia, as in NO

appetite. My daughter who was on this drug basically stopped eating. She would

look at her dinner plate and not be able to take a bite. Ritalin and it's

" friends " like all stimulant also create a lack of appetite but it

goes away when off the drug. The problem was constant with strattera and she

lost 10 lbs in 2 weeks. Of course we had to stop the medication.

Shirly

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Of Hilda S. Mitrani

Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 5:14 PM

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Subject: 10 year study of stimulants in children

http://egmn.idsk.com/stories_us/17_ds_8740903.jsp

This is an important article

for those parents who worry about trying stimulants in their kids with ADHD.

Strattera, which is actually a non-stimulant medication, has been beneficial

for my son. Here's a key section:

Regardless, the key take-away point is that these 10-year longitudinal data

help alleviate widespread physician and parental concerns that prescribing

stimulants to children with ADHD may predispose them to future substance use

disorders. It’s worth emphasizing that in this study, neither the age at

which stimulant therapy began nor its duration was associated with subsequent

substance use disorders, added Dr. Biederman, who is chief of the clinical and

research program in pediatric psychopharmacology and adult ADHD at

Massachusetts General Hospital.

Hilda